• Com-Zone, come all
  • Upper house of cards
  • A June meddling
  • UNITA’s warning
  • Hassan Sheikh at the wheel
  • All at sea over drugs
  • The economic underpinnings
  • Pillars of the regime
  • Keeping up with the Compaorés
  • Not an honorary consul
  • Testimony on Bah
  • Impunity in Freetown
  • EU brings budget support
  • The rush to the vote
  • Spoils for all, please
  • Limits to corruption campaign
  • Essential contact, the Cameron way
  • Diplomatic diversions
  • Law suits unravel
  • Progress but...
  • Kivu talks impasse
  • Pleas to go
  • Patience snaps over IMF
  • Ex-Dauphin in the dock
  • Clean sweep slows down
  • The fight for Mount Simandou
  • Rifts in the regime
  • Tactics but no strategy
  • The Abalone list
  • Debt deal scandal revives
  • Rise of the professionals
  • On live TV, a swarm of lawyers
  • A tough one hundred days
  • Opposition on all fronts
  • Military manoeuvres
  • Faustin's pact
  • Admiral of the white
  • Beny bites back
  • Deferring democracy
  • The Quionga network
  • Frelimo's gold rush
  • Blade's think-tank regiment
  • ANC wields the long knives
  • Toeing the party online
  • Independents in name
  • Boycotts and masks
  • Lords of misrule
  • Training regime
  • The campaign stretches out
  • Beggar your pardon
  • Security worsens
  • Biya's second house
  • Scramble for Nacala
  • ZANU-PF wins the referendum
  • No cash to count on
  • Rifts over lake
  • Lilongwe’s treason trial
  • Don’t be a negative force
  • Rebels everywhere
  • What Juba gets from the oil deal
  • After they open the taps
  • West divided on aid scandal
  • South African troops under fire
  • Séléka takes power
  • ‘With the thoughts of Meles’
  • Succeeding Sata
  • Towards a one-party state
  • Taking the hostage road
  • Tap dancing
  • 'Cruel and inhumane'
  • Stay on, moi?
  • Unhealthy finances
  • M23 may be close to a deal
  • Secrecy mars ballot deal
  • Vote now, pay later
  • Trouble in the hills
  • Groans about growth
  • Shocks and ore bodies
  • Condé’s rainbow fades away
  • A very British coup
  • Credibility of the IEBC under fire
  • The closest of shaves
  • Trust question
  • Piecemeal deal
  • Democracy demos
  • BRICS tug-of-war
  • Splits prolong crisis
  • Why are they waiting?
  • Gordhan's budget balm
  • The left-right clash on economics
  • Guns, jobs and strikes
  • The leaders in Lubumbashi
  • The Mai-Mai and their commanders
  • Militants target Katanga
  • Eko Atlantic arises from the sea bed
  • No visible means of support
  • Girding up for the vote
  • Swing counties hold the key
  • Pitfalls ahead for foreigners
  • Jubilee aims to win it in one
  • Answers needed
  • Daily pressure
  • Swearing deputies
  • Loyalty rewarded
  • The new poor give less
  • Spring in opposition’s step
  • Banda takes on her deputy
  • Jobs on the roads
  • Kabimba looks ahead
  • Qatar's cold shoulder
  • Issayas staggers a little
  • British military aid for Sudan
  • Jihadists from Mali in Darfur
  • By Skype from The Hague
  • Nairobi’s governing passions
  • Rocky road in the north
  • Crisis in the command
  • Maghreb’s early bath
  • Torture in the dock
  • Coup calls
  • Bogged down in Bangui
  • Olympio’s legacy
  • The Puntland problem
  • The recognition blues
  • Salva changes the guard
  • Losing ground at the AU
  • Odinga’s fiasco
  • Flashpoints on the margins
  • Holding their breath
  • I chose the deputy
  • Alghabass ag Intallah changes sides
  • The end of the beginning
  • The power of the south
  • Development vies with conflict resolution in Addis
  • Blé Goudé arrested
  • Secret shipment
  • Funds query for Bangura
  • ZANU-PF's loss
  • French Somalia raid ‘was a trap’
  • Regional alliances shifting
  • Wade’s barons under scrutiny
  • Family bonds
  • Après Biya fears
  • Thawing the assets
  • Not so open for business
  • Purges and placements
  • Ramaphosa’s price
  • With Zuma to Bangui
  • Bozizé back from the brink
  • Abuja’s foreign legion
  • Nouakchott on the spot
  • Taking the fight to the desert
  • Northern parts
  • The longer war
  • Democratic hustle
  • Navigating the rapids
  • Falling foreign support
  • Let them eat fish
  • Omer el Beshir’s New Year’s Party
  • Khartoum in a corner
  • Ailing and failing
  • A race to the bottom
  • A test for the constitutions
  • The economic fightback
  • The party isn’t over yet
  • Django unchained
  • Talk first, fight later
  • Electricity and elections
  • Politics goes to court
  • Early start for Jonathan
  • Harsh truths and high growth
  • Mengi beaned in court
  • Geingob reassures
  • Trovoada sacked
  • Zuma leaves nothing to chance
  • Sadig calls for regime change
  • Unity under strain
  • Wilting jasmine
  • Tax threat to IMF deal
  • A country polarised
  • Ructions over reconquest plan
  • Captain Sanogo strikes back
  • Rift risk over gas laws
  • Shotgun wedding season
  • Soro clouds economic revival
  • The democracy question
  • The Mahama factor
  • Make mine a mine
  • Imports and exports
  • Zuma sweeps the boards
  • The plot thickens
  • ICC tries more with less
  • Floating arsenals in legal fog
  • SWAPO picks a new leader
  • Licence to secede
  • New strains on the Union
  • Egyptians return in search of gold
  • The new gold rush
  • How politicians help insurgents
  • Boko Haram looks to Mali
  • Clouds over Koroma’s victory
  • Why Goma fell
  • Kabila looks into the abyss
  • Expert opinions
  • Sanctions bypass
  • What price the Unity Party
  • Undiplomatic corps
  • ZANU-PF’s gem of a campaign
  • Opacity for all
  • Dodging Dodd-Frank
  • Oil and gas prospects fuel lake row
  • How the branches voted
  • Zuma or else
  • Breaking ranks in Kismayo
  • Hassan Sheikh keeps it in the family
  • Juba runs out of patience
  • No spring in the step
  • Sesay and the city
  • Elections 2012: Koroma in front
  • Contributions gratefully received
  • Elections 2012: Mahama ahead by a hair
  • Bienvenido a Malabo
  • Addis on a caution
  • Was it a coup?
  • Juba jitters
  • Soldiers get ready
  • Not yet spring in Mogadishu
  • Opposition shakes Trovoada
  • Sovereign wonga fund
  • Three men in a boat
  • Uganda accused
  • Shell and the Delta litigations
  • The $100 billion bash
  • Khartoum’s military-industrial complex
  • Target Khartoum
  • Ghannouchi unplugged
  • Abyei arrangement
  • Guebuza’s new man
  • M23’s other parent
  • Changing tribal customs on J Street
  • IMF finance for Mursi's new order
  • Bankers of the world unite
  • Borrowing big
  • A poverty of strategy
  • Fraternal rivalry
  • Faure fading fast
  • Ex-President Banda switches horses
  • Big budget, big promises
  • Winning them over one by one
  • Zuma’s campaign pays off
  • Handling the opposition
  • Aziz’s power game
  • Gbagbo’s Ghana connection
  • Ouattara under threat again
  • Regional confrontation looms
  • Jonglei flashpoint
  • Un-persons
  • La Francophonie
  • No new brooms
  • Takeover at Kismayo
  • Partial win for Guebuza
  • Courting foreign business
  • Campaigning begins
  • First steps to stopping the stealing
  • The grand corruption trap
  • Election tax axed
  • Sam stays on the ticket
  • Mali a l’Amisom
  • Come if you must
  • Miners get bad reviews
  • Financial faultlines
  • Profits derailed
  • Dead preachers poser
  • Morganatic marriages
  • Jammeh’s execution spree
  • Opposition claims dismissed
  • Luanda buys Mayfair trophy
  • Aid threatened, conflict up
  • As Amisom targets Kismayo, Al Shabaab changes tactics
  • New president, new laws and old enemies
  • The rush for land
  • Kilelengwani burns
  • New York showdown
  • Disunited unions
  • Zuma hits back as mining unrest spreads
  • Mombasa murder
  • The Mahama swing
  • Sidelining Blaise
  • Monitoring on hold
  • Looting minerals
  • Plunder unabated
  • The Putin option
  • Not out of the woods
  • Hopes and fears offshore
  • Politics over oil
  • A sickly constitution
  • Shift that coal
  • Glittering prospects
  • Rebels and defections
  • Kabila seeks succour abroad
  • Forex windfall test for banks
  • Four more MPLA years
  • Let them wear cotton
  • The first oil election
  • After a unifying funeral, a divisive election
  • The case against Sam-Sumana
  • President Mursi's soft coup
  • Intervention plan revealed
  • Ethnic arithmetic
  • A rough, tough battle ahead
  • The MPLA plans a landslide
  • The Marikana massacre
  • The other contestants
  • Battle of the unions
  • Mugabe's Maputo success
  • The road home
  • The man in charge, for now
  • Rail to the chief
  • Blaming the outsiders
  • After Meles
  • Clashes at mosques
  • Three million euros in the fountain
  • M23 moves up
  • Former aide lashes Odinga
  • Cross-border pollution
  • Secrets are not forever
  • Threats to Khama fade
  • Sudan under protest
  • The anti-sanctions race
  • August will be hot
  • Souvenir of Matebeleland
  • It’s time for a vote
  • Severely turbulent airline
  • Biya swings the axe
  • Death puts feuds on hold
  • Vice-President in loan row
  • Ivorian justice questioned
  • The officers’ mess
  • Obsequies and summitry
  • Politicking after the mourning
  • From no growth to low growth
  • The missing host
  • Stifling dissent
  • No bang (this time)
  • Sam with a plan
  • The ball is in the court
  • Luanda’s crude power
  • One year on – unrealistic expectations remain unfulfilled
  • Electoral victory roll
  • Bamako drift
  • The jihadists take over
  • M23 makes the running
  • A diplomatic coup in Addis
  • Dlamini-Zuma takes charge
  • Protestors’ pressure mounts
  • Bank to bank
  • Killers united
  • Rocks and hard men
  • Obama’s Congo law
  • Rebels aim for Kivu secession
  • Selected heads roll
  • Bandits at large
  • Jitters as Bozizé dumps ally
  • Foreign sanctions miss target
  • Politics and religion
  • Rajoelina slows down the train
  • Attacking civil society
  • Zuma delays judgement day
  • Turning security upside down
  • Dazzling statistics
  • Fine gesture
  • No horizon
  • Lucrative IIDEA
  • Warlords at work
  • The honeymoon’s over
  • New broom passed over
  • Reforming power
  • Mutembo's targets
  • Sata takes on the judges
  • Justice denied
  • A coarse debut
  • Saitoti’s death leaves a gap
  • End of transition looms
  • Tuareg splits widen
  • US 'protecting' Rwanda
  • Kigali’s hand in the Kivus
  • The Italian job
  • Who's who in the Guinea loan saga
  • A new battle to control the mines
  • Money doubling
  • Lomé out of Lomé
  • Last ditch
  • Questions of succession
  • Pre-millenial tension
  • Another Congo crisis
  • Angola looks east
  • War drums sounding
  • The rich list
  • SWAPO shutdown
  • Islamic state
  • The new Thabo Mbeki
  • NTC puts poll in doubt
  • Soldier against Muslim Brother
  • Pushing the putsch
  • Sanogo ponders compromise
  • Warning to future Taylors
  • Who fights for whom
  • Faultlines in the foundations
  • Mswati’s private party
  • Poll post-mortem shocks
  • Conflicts of interest
  • A born-again state mining company
  • Higher taxes, less nationalisation
  • Entente absente
  • The founder's fury
  • An imported ally
  • Devil of a mess
  • Tuaregs talk government
  • A government of few talents
  • Rwanda looms larger in Kivu
  • Wars of the succession
  • Bouncing the Spring
  • Fuel fraud fans public anger
  • Rockets and meetings
  • Sanctions threat drives talks
  • Muscling out Mugabe
  • Police and thieves
  • The leadership race opens up
  • Unrecognisable
  • More time for the junta
  • No go Sanogo
  • Killing on the quiet
  • Lowassa plans his comeback
  • New financiers, new disputes
  • Keep smiling
  • Israel and the energy crisis
  • Presiding over chaos
  • Return of the RUF
  • Champagne for the candidates
  • Three days in April
  • A long-distance run for Banda
  • Discontent over Wynter
  • Sata’s health and other scares
  • Charity ends at home
  • Running water, vaulting ambition
  • Development over democracy
  • Africa's run at the Bank
  • Half-truths on subsidies
  • Corrupt but open
  • Koroma’s UN fear
  • A question of security
  • Star-struck James Ibori
  • Wanted – the Terminator
  • Return of the narco-state
  • Stakes and taxes
  • Energy bonanza promises real financial independence
  • Police fail public order test
  • The youth rebellion heads east
  • From the Stasi to State House
  • Prophecies and fantasies
  • A political and military test
  • All or nothing
  • Differences sharpen in presidential poll
  • The men who would be Rais
  • Hope of peace for Cabinda
  • The north and south of it
  • Rebel against rebel – against the rest
  • Issoufou under siege
  • Gadaffi Junior's gaffe
  • War drums sound as the South takes Heglig
  • How Mutharika went wrong
  • New leader, new broom
  • Keeping it in the family
  • Kibaki nervous over ICC
  • The LRA is down but not out
  • Opposition poll boycott
  • Turkish aid
  • And a food crisis too
  • Zuma battles Juju
  • UN clash over Beijing bullets claim
  • Taking bribes seriously
  • Ibori goes to Southwark
  • Office politics
  • Habre hangs on
  • Condé looks East and West
  • Militia hides behind civilians
  • Keeping an eye on oil
  • Dying by the sword
  • Sassou for ever
  • Uganda's profits of war
  • Al Shabaab’s waiting game
  • Senegal ousts Wade
  • Rebels and putschists
  • Power to the president
  • Where’s the indigenous cash?
  • Soothing the investors
  • Sata stumbles
  • The people who run the PDP show
  • The President tightens up
  • Friends reunited?
  • Gomes in the lead
  • Euro-Right backs Boers
  • Personal, not business
  • Opposition turns up the heat
  • Empire-building in Addis
  • Getting out of the bush
  • Dead banker tweeting
  • Poisoning the atmosphere
  • Tunisia lobbies for the UMA
  • The neighbours start talking
  • The rise of Tendai Biti
  • Constitutional reform blow
  • Business gets a seat at the table
  • At the top, a three-way split
  • How to buy growth – for $100 billion
  • Khartoum rewrites history
  • Abacha’s ghost and Boko Haram
  • Oil cuts as Delta erupts
  • Diplomatic challenge
  • Timis drills deep
  • Wade poll shock
  • Who's the democrat now?
  • Unity on cash crisis
  • Kwacha devaluation: not if but when
  • Pressure mounts on Mutharika
  • Lusaka restarts the anti-corruption campaign
  • Companies fight regulation
  • The Glencore-Xstrata merger
  • Kabila targets the land
  • John Michuki (1932-2012): A life
  • Kibaki loses his peers
  • Martial music plays in London
  • Board to probe finances
  • Cashing in on chaos
  • All go for Tullow
  • Rebels with a cause
  • Blow to Geingob
  • Ellen's green cred
  • Inquest blue
  • Wade rallies
  • No freedom of the press
  • Gadaffi’s bequest to region
  • MNLA’s deadly mobility
  • Libyan arms fuel Tuareg revolt
  • The Woyome scandal and its casualties
  • Who paid whom for what?
  • Condé takes on the army and opposition
  • The gamble for Simandou
  • Early exit for UN envoy
  • Big projects, money pressures
  • The state of Zuma’s nation
  • The trouble after Katumba
  • No great expectations
  • Unity is for others
  • It's Woyome time
  • No reform yet
  • Fanfares for Africa
  • Jobs for the boys
  • Storm over opposition man
  • A low-key second term
  • Wade digs his heels in
  • The shape of the deadly sect
  • How terror came to Kano
  • Who’s who in mines
  • Oil is the new cocoa
  • From Gadaffi to Qatar
  • Waiting for government
  • The Hague changes the game
  • Who pays the pipeline
  • The South goes for sovereignty
  • The war goes regional
  • Critics still not welcome
  • Drop the pilot
  • Crash goes the conspiracy
  • Famine fallout
  • Cutting rivalries
  • Maputo shuns US concern
  • Dragons in Eden
  • The man most likely to succeed Pohamba
  • New technology, new repression
  • Electoral chicanery and the UN
  • No confidence vote from companies
  • Opposition steps up fight
  • Mugabe breaks with the region
  • Positions pending
  • Cobalt's compulsory partners
  • Marques takes them on
  • The Accra boosters
  • Sanusi hits out at subsidy racket
  • How the fuel row caught fire
  • The long march speeds up
  • Great expectations
  • Getting the vote right
  • How the economy defies politics
  • Smart money, prickly politics
  • A year of living dangerously
  • Zuma goes for broke
  • One election, two countries
  • Economic jitters as Tshwane looks East
  • Rough roads ahead
  • A race against time
  • A pause in economic progress
  • Votes, mines and money
  • The future is military
  • The war goes regional
  • Downturn hits election agenda
  • A vote on unfinished business
  • Subsidy cuts and crony capitalists
  • What lies beyond Tahrir
  • Critics still not welcome
  • Explore Somaliland
  • Small coup in Quelimane
  • High unit costs
  • Donors challenge Bingu
  • Comrades and compromisers
  • Return of the Chissanoistas
  • N’Dour wades in
  • Economy faces royal crisis
  • The King’s own Islamists
  • Waiting for a breakthrough
  • Brothers unbound
  • Pachyderms in the parlour
  • Timeline of a troubled vote
  • Kabila: from farce to tragedy
  • Opposition picks its champions
  • Inside the security hierarchy
  • The business of terror
  • ZANU's honey trap
  • Tax deduction
  • The unprosecutables
  • Fraud and violence
  • The Gordhan knot
  • Selling the state
  • Banks strike oil
  • MPLA curbs the media
  • Palace plotters
  • Condé talks to rivals
  • ICC bags Gbagbo first
  • Gbagbo to the Hague, nation to the polls
  • The IMF and the Chinese loan puzzle
  • A pipeline of votes
  • Enemies in the north
  • Presidential poll wide open
  • What’s in Somalia for Ethiopia
  • It rained on their invasion
  • Storm warning
  • Perth pangs
  • Electoral alliances
  • The gloves are off
  • Nigeria and South Africa stand up
  • ‘No monster’ Jammeh heads for victory
  • Implausible denials
  • Doubts about Sata’s zeal arise
  • New challenges after messy elections
  • USA joins fight against LRA
  • Ferry fiasco dents Koroma’s standing
  • Inflammatory subsidy
  • Polls, leaks and expropriations
  • Troubled waters, no oil yet
  • Bargain mine sales draw fire
  • Cyber attack
  • Condé to look at Dahdaleh case
  • Plot device
  • Biya’s last hurrah
  • Storm over SA mercenaries in Libya
  • Political violence worsens
  • Fears grow of poll delay
  • Brinkmanship at the ballot
  • Kenya’s Somali proxies
  • Confused war aims cause alarm
  • They don’t seek him here...
  • The past is another country
  • The succession players
  • Dos Santos calls elections
  • The struggle for the centre
  • Malema and Zuma mass their armies
  • Brothers-in-arms
  • BAE Systems’ fine dilemma
  • Devil take the hindermost
  • Teodorin’s week
  • How Banda got bounced
  • A Scott in office
  • The President starts purging
  • From Delta militias to piracy
  • Oil in troubled waters
  • Military momentum
  • Opposition on the march
  • Coffers empty, power for sale
  • Generals stall the revolution
  • Contenders for the Assembly
  • New rules for a new order
  • Kibaki gambles on regional war with Al Shabaab
  • Manoeuvring in Cairo
  • Yesterday's rebels, today's rebels
  • On the border
  • Opening up Aso Rock
  • Foreign policy aid
  • The loot looted
  • New leaf
  • Those were the days
  • The Security Council lands a new African problem
  • Al Shabaab sets the agenda
  • Uhuru looks back in anger
  • Ministry of power struggles
  • Banking on the move
  • Getting the right numbers
  • Soldiers shooting at dawn
  • Election fails to stir passions
  • Ellen wants first-round win
  • Troubled exit for Banda
  • Good boom, bad timing
  • No EITI for UK
  • By-election business
  • Terrorist listing
  • Recognised but risky
  • Baba Laddé: Robber or Robin Hood?
  • Mastering the militias
  • International concerns
  • Rajoelina agrees a deal
  • General alarm
  • US sources run for cover
  • Too little, too late
  • Are the politicians high?
  • The fight of the century
  • Economy recovers, security wobbles
  • No springtime in Algiers
  • Party postpones post-mortem
  • A rocky electoral road
  • The Gadaffi clan scatters
  • You can take the Africa out of Libya
  • All the President’s businessmen
  • Play the game
  • Making calls on the state
  • Bozizé slows down his takeover
  • Questions facing the new regime
  • Death in Jonglei
  • New South Sudan Ministers
  • Disrespect for the President
  • Bringing peace to the military
  • Gbagbo: France’s part in his downfall
  • Taking a stake in economic development
  • Celso Correia, favourite son
  • Leak now, pay later
  • Vicente to succeed Dos Santos?
  • Lobbying on
  • Strain in ICC case
  • It’s not cricket
  • Changing times
  • Protests postponed
  • Prison politics
  • Pinto da Costa back in office
  • Renamo threatens a return to violence
  • Fonseca’s win tests nerves
  • The nationalisation investigators
  • Suddenly, the nationalisation talk gets serious
  • The police fail to protect
  • The kingmaker general dies at Alamein
  • It's urgent? Set up a committee
  • Who cleans up in the Delta?
  • The hits against Al Shabaab
  • Al Shabaab – neither gone nor forgotten
  • Gadaffi falls, revolution rises
  • Military mayhem
  • Nyachae and the Fund
  • Crisis? What crisis?
  • Favourite four
  • Citizen candidate
  • Mutatis mutandis
  • Running on empty
  • The strange case of the ex-Governors
  • Governors on top and on trial
  • Strange alliances
  • Many more scores to settle
  • 100 days of ADO
  • Zuma's front-line diplomats
  • Foreign policy flip-flops
  • The President lashes out
  • Some Banda backers exit
  • A vote about money
  • Politics and posturing
  • Hard winter in Harare
  • David meets Jacob
  • Presidential guard fall out
  • Don't call us
  • Media makeover
  • The radar scandal is back
  • A Mills bomb for Rawlings
  • Honesty – not the easiest policy
  • Bad fences, bad neighbours
  • From autonomy to sovereignty
  • How the South moves north
  • Maiduguri's terror crisis
  • Unreliable economic barometer
  • Spinning out of control
  • Nairobi needs its fix
  • Succession not reform
  • Oil and reality
  • Checkpoint Nairobi
  • Opposition hits the Embassy
  • Cabinda man arrested
  • Durbar without elephants
  • Veterans with influence
  • Police powers set to expand
  • Zuma and the securocrats
  • How honesty can cost jobs
  • Condé drives a hard bargain
  • Strategic electoral alliances
  • Rebels edge closer to Tripoli
  • Refineries and rivalries
  • Power cuts without responsibility
  • Ministers old and new
  • The usual suspects
  • Abyei in limbo
  • The clock strikes zero
  • To be and not to be
  • Mothballed MiGs
  • Secret exits
  • Military shopping
  • Mbeki's money men
  • Turning the tables
  • Hit and hate
  • Washington's military option
  • Oromo opening
  • Arusha verdicts
  • Off the rails
  • Rebels and revenge
  • Pushing for Praia
  • Brothers at war
  • Holding up the peace
  • Parties at work
  • Tiny's last offer
  • After the rains
  • Ben's bid
  • The next Zeroual
  • In the badlands
  • Militants and monarchs
  • Seriously, though
  • One day, son
  • Reform dilemma
  • Only a miracle
  • Call back
  • Parallel lines
  • Feast ore famine
  • The devil you know
  • The battle to succeed Kikwete
  • The rise of Team Kaberuka
  • Election express
  • Reports of Mugabe’s demise
  • Regional leaders take on the President
  • The trouble with Tobiko
  • Blood and oil
  • Power to the people, profits to the chiefs
  • Boko Haram declares war
  • Counting the cost
  • Khartoum’s debt threat
  • Malema and Zuma for breakfast
  • Ritual killings spark riots
  • Trial by procrastination
  • Fuel crisis endangers regimes
  • Generating power and cash
  • Sata rises in the west
  • Banda brothers on the attack
  • Ocampo tries to protect the evidence
  • Revolts change regional alliances
  • The view and the cash from Arabia
  • Attacks cause new crisis
  • Big cabinet, bigger problems
  • ‘Fear and... fiction from Clooney’
  • Edging towards the brink
  • Trading standards
  • Revised downwards
  • Usman Optimism
  • Political chemistry
  • To a little kingdom
  • Entrenched and overstretched
  • Gunning for prawns
  • Mining and undermining
  • Strings attached
  • Bellingham brings warrants
  • The fastest growing family
  • Blue Nile blues
  • Shaky Guelleh snubs ICC
  • All the way down
  • Prosperity and paranoia
  • Peace in Côte d’Ivoire, relief for Dakar
  • Wade wants to stay on
  • Coal train blues
  • Can the King stop the spring?
  • Where the BEE sucks
  • Cocoa holds the key
  • Long memories in Abyei
  • Fighting for Abyei
  • Election results keep Zuma in contention
  • Cousins call
  • Somersaults
  • Call the lawyers
  • War winnings
  • Moving deadlines
  • Devastating debts
  • My Arabism tired me out
  • Militias and market forces
  • Severed supplies
  • The right's embrace
  • Dinosaur encore
  • Obasanjo encore
  • Turning the tide
  • From the 38th floor
  • Annan and Africa
  • The Lowassa fight back
  • Two leaders, two parties
  • Ethical smelting
  • Glencore connection
  • Old man out
  • Usama’s quiet friends in Khartoum
  • Indicted war criminal fights election
  • Shouting insults
  • Succession discussions
  • Why the Arab Spring worries Luanda
  • Coulibaly: Death of a rebel
  • Stabilisation now, reconciliation later
  • Chaos keeps Gadaffi in the game
  • A revolution in the revolution
  • Not so golden jubilee
  • All for the sake of the party
  • Twin peaks
  • Business front
  • Bongo rebounds
  • Before the storm
  • Who comes next?
  • Facing up to Savimbi
  • The wages of war
  • Misfirings
  • False amnesties
  • Best friends
  • The Pinochet factor
  • Asking the people
  • An election foretold
  • Ending an embargo
  • Politics of prices
  • Déby on top
  • Gosh returns to the shadows
  • Campaign timetable
  • Getting (not too) tough on corruption
  • Taxation without legal representation
  • Opposition works the walk
  • New brooms, old handles
  • Towns at risk for the ANC
  • Local elections threaten the ANC's national grip
  • Sinking the pirates
  • Bluff and bluster
  • Beau Blaise loses it
  • Governors, godfathers and guts
  • Better elections, dangerous politics
  • Fixing finances
  • Taking the democratic out of DRC
  • Uprising put down
  • Hosting Hamas
  • Zuma to the shores of Tripoli
  • Boutef holds back the wave
  • Mutharika cracks down
  • The candidates line up
  • Through the Wikihole
  • Six in the dock
  • George Soros offers some tips
  • Tough questions for Condé
  • A resolution in Abidjan
  • A trap for the juggernaut
  • Congo contradictions
  • President Moi and the dynasty
  • First the provinces, then the presidency
  • Fighting rebels at home and abroad
  • December surprise
  • Rebel terror
  • David and Goliath
  • No nation, new regions
  • Clubbing Beijing
  • School meals and bullets
  • Hello and good-bye
  • Zanu-PF fails to oust Speaker
  • The anti-Asmara campaign
  • One man, one vote
  • Some land lease agreements
  • Mr. Smile and the militias
  • The scramble for the South
  • Who’s who in Zumaland
  • Zuma’s presidential primary
  • Watch the south-west
  • Results that are fit to print
  • In command and control
  • The opposition breaks cover, slowly
  • A family at war
  • Khama country, again
  • Millionaire debtors
  • As bad as it gets
  • The man who would be king
  • Questions on terror
  • Hello North Africa
  • Au revoir, la République
  • The Speaker's chair
  • Council of war, but who's the enemy?
  • The state of the forces
  • Real bullets, phoney coup
  • Europe's new line on Gadaffi
  • Tanzania's gas players
  • Gas finds offer hope of ending power-cuts
  • Taxing problems for Zambia
  • Pushing for probity
  • Defying the democracy wave
  • Ambushing the revolution
  • On to the trial
  • Guns, votes and cocoa
  • Oil state on the record
  • Making history
  • The EU pays but keeps silent
  • The revolution continues
  • The Gupta factor
  • It's all about jobs
  • A port with no ships
  • The King's budget
  • Peering into the abyss
  • Eritrea is not for sale
  • Gold rush
  • So where did the money go?
  • Democracy heads south
  • Power at a price
  • ZANU-PF cries treason
  • Gadaffi's fight to the death
  • Militia massacres
  • Pre-emptive policing
  • No uranium for Tehran
  • Cairo tactics
  • Split the nation
  • Cooking up those raw materials
  • Zumanomics sound better
  • Uneasy lies the head
  • Rearranging the cabinet
  • Obame: no, he can’t
  • A fight for the President’s base
  • Mubarak’s friends sanctioned
  • Dropping the pilot
  • First pick your judge
  • The financial sanctions tighten
  • Democracy standoff
  • Winners of the wave
  • Activists versus authoritarians
  • Bad omens
  • Less bashing for bribers
  • Gamal Mubarak's retreat
  • Bayelsa's fighting chance
  • Ben Ali, biens mal acquis
  • Cocoa ban may hit Gbagbo's war chest
  • Squeezing Gbagbo's budget
  • The political fallout
  • A five-year exit plan
  • Militia attacks on the border
  • Through the looking glass
  • Playing dominoes
  • The major opposition
  • Mubarak stumbles to the exit
  • Summitry in a time of revolution
  • Rewards and realpolitik
  • Telling the story
  • Propaganda war
  • Abine quits RDPC
  • Kabila moves the goalposts
  • The junta gets ready
  • Battle of the bankers
  • Banda on the backfoot
  • Subsidising politics
  • Jonathan’s primary colours
  • Brazil’s natural allies
  • Rumbas in the jungle
  • A family legacy
  • The jasmine and khaki revolution
  • The Abyei crucible
  • The Tunis effect
  • Birth of a nation
  • Africa Confidential Political & Statistical Wallchart 2011
  • Careful what you wear
  • The TFG’s August deadline
  • Kabila again
  • A permanent putsch
  • Johnson Sirleaf stands on her record
  • To Biya or not to Biya
  • Even ZANU can change
  • Getting ready to vote
  • Mubarak and son limited
  • He’s back on top again
  • Freedom – North and South
  • Electric elections
  • Elections on trial
  • Bongo feels the heat
  • Banker for Benin
  • ICC has Kenyan politicians on the run
  • Challenging Banda
  • Careless cables cost lives
  • Diplomacy overheard
  • Amid the chaos, a sort of vote
  • The bombing of Kiir Adem
  • Two presidents, one crisis
  • One farm good, four farms better
  • The wiles of a crocodile, the memory of an elephant
  • Iron constitutions required
  • General John Togo and all his enemies
  • The war against the amnesty
  • New guns on the block
  • Don’t be vague, let’s go to the Hague
  • Ocampo names six suspects
  • Cranswick and Marange
  • Why Nyanda had to go
  • The next revolt
  • Closing the laundries
  • Abyei's protocol problems
  • The thwarted contenders
  • Mubarak's last stand
  • Modesty Blaise
  • Will the UN bail out of Congo?
  • The case against Kabila's army
  • Gadaffi's Jacob and Esau
  • Oil, money and infighting
  • Iranian guns and a king in Banjul
  • Ruto takes on the courts
  • Atiku, Buhari and Ribadu - the great northern hopes
  • All the President's militias
  • Culpable contracts
  • Thank you for smoking
  • Approaching the summit
  • Paternal censorship
  • Bye-bye Mr Speaker
  • Opposition at sea over oil
  • Oil to play for
  • Challenging Madam President
  • Musical chairs in Monrovia
  • Jonathan’s Delta blues
  • Abyei waits
  • Taking on the journalists
  • Mining for votes
  • Holding their breath
  • Old crocodile, younger croc
  • A multi-faceted business
  • Condé’s hard won victory
  • Over the new rainbow
  • And then, there were two
  • Behind the election machinery
  • Party unity trumps national reforms
  • Kagame’s troops return to Congo
  • The boom in Juba and its consequences
  • Jarch Capital has friends in the South
  • Khartoum’s new export trade
  • UN rejects AU blockade plea
  • Trade talk troubles
  • Pushing Europe towards African farms
  • Complex architecture but no deal
  • Down but not out
  • Sanctions fraying fast
  • The bout begins
  • Lying big, often
  • At stake: oil, migrants and gemstones
  • Daylight on Dos Santos
  • Caught in the currency battles
  • As power shifts eastwards, Africa boosts its stake
  • Counting on growth
  • Challenging the CCM
  • Kikwete marshals his troops
  • Northern opposition faces increasing duress
  • Murder again
  • El Baradei’s boycott falters
  • Battle of the plans
  • Coup-makers fall out
  • Everyone wants a vote
  • Ready for change in the Niger Delta
  • Super-Minister Wade
  • A rope for Ruto
  • Oil joy, debt worry
  • The gangs of Port Harcourt
  • Moving statues
  • Kinshasa in court
  • Odds now on Condé
  • The Quito question
  • In search of policy
  • Tobacco lobby meets in Swaziland
  • Tobacco and the forex puzzle
  • Buy now, vote later
  • How Kibaki blocks the ICC
  • Massaging the message
  • The IMF asks the 5 billion euro question
  • The car bomb whodunit
  • The politics takes over again
  • Buttering up Zuma
  • SWAPO suffers bee stings
  • A New York divorce
  • Mixed minerals
  • Election schedule 2010-2013
  • Runners and frontrunners
  • Election delays and doubts
  • A poll that perplexes
  • Niger, Mauritania, Mali: the politics
  • Four and not out
  • Storms in the sand
  • The missing election fund
  • The bonus culture
  • After the council, a reshuffle
  • Postponing the policies
  • A new strategy for Darfur
  • Less debt, more deals
  • Critics, crooks and credibility
  • The field gets more crowded
  • A false start
  • Good man, impossible job
  • Vavi and the unions stake their claim
  • President under pressure
  • A tight election timetable
  • The President is for turning
  • The real cost of Maputo’s aid
  • Ghostly presences
  • Malema loses a friend
  • The UN’s credibility on the line
  • Kigali wins another round of the blame game
  • A suspect at the parade
  • Wetangula – MP for Khartoum North
  • Museveni’s ambitions, American reservations
  • Museveni's foreign policy team
  • Expanding the contracts
  • All to play for
  • The new guard steps up
  • Indigens and expatriates
  • Nuclear-powered brothers
  • The Colonel’s Roman holiday
  • Mounting strikes
  • Turning a corner
  • Otunnu objects
  • Politicians waiting in the wings
  • A dubious election date, again
  • Strong investment, weak prosperity
  • Copper-bottomed but leaky
  • The battle of the Nile
  • The polls close but violence continues
  • Strategy of sabotage
  • No referee for the referenda
  • A government team in the oil battle
  • The politics of no
  • Under no circumstances
  • Dog days in Lilongwe
  • Opposition nuptials
  • Bullfighting
  • Mogadishu's ministry of truth
  • The Afghan effect
  • The numbers are looking up
  • Roaring to go
  • Taking sides in the big debate
  • An uneasy ruling alliance
  • 8 ways to clean up minerals
  • Contract clashes
  • New pressure on the war-minerals link
  • Rumbles in the Rift
  • This time a peaceful vote
  • Abuja takes Halliburton to court
  • Political spills
  • Father Kukah, Professor Jega and the vote
  • Goodluck with the numbers
  • A formidable new party
  • Coups and cocaine
  • Secret talks
  • Khartoum's most wanted
  • Restless spirits
  • What mattered was the football
  • Karim the successor
  • Wade’s one-man band
  • He’s old but he’s running
  • Katanga makes a comeback
  • Secretive Shabaab
  • Fighting on a new front
  • Forgotten promises
  • Zuma’s first-term casualties
  • More gluttony
  • The 3.8 billion dollar question
  • Storm in an oil barrel
  • A taxing compromise
  • First to integrate
  • Crisis on the Nile
  • Realpolitik and resignations
  • Criminal business is big business
  • Mungiki’s new man
  • We’re here to be recognised
  • Minister Thiam covers his bases
  • A second, tougher round
  • How the CFA Franc zone works
  • The falling euro drags down the CFA franc
  • Secret oil deal
  • Odious debts, now less debt
  • Half a century, half the battle
  • The assassin’s hand
  • The opposition on parade
  • The Museveni machine grinds into gear
  • World cup shooting
  • Mine not yours
  • Bankrupt asylum policy
  • In a spin
  • Single party rules again
  • High-stakes election
  • The international agenda
  • Crisis cabinets
  • See you in court in Beirut
  • Obiang’s prize turnip
  • The Kingamyambo Musonoi tailings
  • Ottawa confronts Africa at the G-20 summit
  • Newsdays and the old days
  • Diplomacy by other means
  • Bombing the campaign
  • Yes, No and in between
  • The battle for the basic law
  • Abbey's all clear
  • The men who run the profitable show
  • A disastrous half-century
  • Oily alliances
  • Welcome to London
  • Higher taxes, says the OECD
  • Where the money went
  • Militias of the new age
  • Flash point Southern Kordofan
  • New management for new tasks
  • Bringing in the money
  • The rise of the watermelons
  • Football fever, faction fever
  • Mixed messages
  • More boots on the ground
  • Opposition wipe-out
  • Dangote is a Gooner
  • The fight for cellphones
  • More muddles in the mines
  • An unconvincing egotist
  • Out of Africa and into Asia
  • Dealers on a high
  • Promising contracts
  • Votes and the mining houses
  • Legal limits
  • Squashing the judges
  • Reformers, politicians and generals
  • Into the unknown
  • Anti-corruption chief quits
  • Witnesses under threat
  • Books not bribes
  • Too many cooks
  • Blaming the USA
  • Opposing Issayas
  • A food crisis foretold
  • Diamond disputes
  • The UN packs its bags
  • Elections loom as Kabila comes under fire from all sides
  • Another corruption crisis
  • The Patel alternative
  • Zuma’s economic tightrope
  • The IMF makes up with Luanda
  • Boom-bust all over again
  • Beny’s railway coup
  • A second term for Sirleaf
  • The gung-ho Governor
  • Key points from Copenhagen
  • Bye bye Betty
  • River raid
  • CDC goes offshore
  • Fifty years on, forget the first forty
  • A runaway army
  • Tax and spend
  • The battle around Banda
  • Warming up in Cape Town
  • Worrying the witnesses
  • Out of the dip
  • The deals, the votes and the fraud
  • A good vote in Africa
  • Stolen votes yield a hollow victory for Khartoum
  • The Goodluck cabinet
  • The Malema effect
  • German exile
  • Spiriting away diamonds
  • ALEKE KADONAPHANI BANDA 1939–2010
  • A government in a hurry
  • Looking for a landslide
  • Contractual confusion
  • Contention and contenders
  • Le scandale pétrolier
  • Live by the sword
  • In a league of his own
  • A moral dilemma
  • Election-rigging guide book
  • An election victory that widens the North-South gap
  • Jonathan and the securocrats
  • A united opposition protest
  • The many ways to win the elections
  • The rise and rise of son of Sam
  • Kiplagat's truth
  • Oil spill
  • Easter parade
  • The most complex elections
  • The diamond mine drama
  • A vote about corruption
  • As elections arrive, the opposition shuns Omer
  • A blow against impunity
  • The front line of politics
  • A dangerous compromise
  • Altered image
  • The next oil scramble
  • Sonangol gulps
  • Kabba on trial
  • Death of a Sudanese activist
  • The men at the centre
  • Tarnished triumph
  • Confusion after the coup
  • Military money
  • US military calls up Europe
  • Aid strike in Maputo
  • The north makes its stand
  • Whitehall strengthens Sharif
  • More troops for Mogadishu
  • The President's would-be rivals
  • FPR dissidents break cover
  • The next revolution
  • Reluctantly to the election
  • Hush hush money
  • Truth and Kiplagat
  • Rapprochement and opportunity
  • BAE Systems refunds fraud
  • Uranium battleground
  • Who's who in the Nigerien coup
  • A coup to stop a coup
  • Doubts over Darfur
  • Target Asmara
  • Another temporary fix
  • Kabila's new slim-look cabinet
  • Sassou's reforms on trial
  • Burning passions
  • Oil and optimism
  • Small print, big figures
  • Tightening the welfare belt
  • On her Majesty's Secret Service
  • Yar'Adua goes into extra time
  • Dynastic dynamics
  • Money muddles
  • Quiet trips to DC
  • A welcome for Monsieur Z
  • Protection in the arms bazaar
  • SWAPO's big guns in the fray
  • Maize splits the Grand Coalition
  • The bid to clean up MPLA Inc
  • Dos Santos prepares for power, again
  • Goodluck with the money
  • Acting President Jonathan sets out his plans
  • The junta explains
  • If you sincerely want to be rich
  • Beating up the bankers
  • Petrified Politburos
  • A clash at the border
  • Malema, mines and the youth league
  • The state of Jacob Zuma
  • Warriors and diplomats
  • David Coetzee
  • Third time lucky
  • It's all mine
  • Training the trainers
  • An American agreement
  • Who’s who in Africom
  • More money for the military
  • Three leaders who count in the South
  • Southern leaders compete for a new state
  • The country gets richer, the party gets stronger
  • The President ends his holiday
  • Economic clouds, platinum lining
  • No one writes to the Colonel
  • Is Colonel Massi dead?
  • Soccer shooting
  • Murder mystery solved
  • Who's who in the junta and beyond
  • Democratic moves after the exit of Dadis
  • BRIC building
  • A slow return to growth
  • Who gets the money?
  • Two generals fail to make peace
  • Problems on the home front
  • Sanctions and the unsanctioned
  • The UN looks for the exit
  • The international Islamist
  • The lucky friends
  • The nearly man
  • The great oil battle begins
  • Who is heading for the Hague?
  • Drought and politics
  • Opening time at Osu Castle
  • Elusive shoots of economic recovery
  • A khaki option on the table
  • Three men in a boat
  • Walking right, talking left
  • The elite scrambles for cover
  • Global plaudits, local travails
  • Succession is a family business
  • Generational change
  • Kabila and a sad jubilee
  • Football, contracts and then votes
  • Vote early, vote often
  • The much-postponed polls
  • Dry times for a quick election
  • Dangerous neighbours
  • Toumba on the run
  • The oil obstacles
  • SWAPO's victory challenged
  • Banking on it
  • Tarnished halo
  • Nigeria's succession: the candidates
  • Yar'Adua's cardiac crisis encourages Abuja plotters
  • Rough ride
  • A storm in the fish ponds
  • Operation Atalanta in Pirate Alley
  • A new regional peace effort
  • North and South protest against the NCP election plan
  • Prospering yet parlous
  • Liberation economics, 20 years on
  • Ready or not, here they come
  • The Abacha family's plunder machine
  • Rogues and rackets on trial
  • Progress in Port of Spain
  • Africa dons its Commonwealth cap
  • The other power struggle
  • The Experts win support
  • Ailing president, procrastinating politics
  • The opposition frontrunners
  • Recycled activists, new tactics
  • Many rivers to cross
  • The rebels' disarming ambivalence
  • The East takes on the South
  • Mr Chambas goes to Brussels
  • Faint heart never beat stout lady in the ruling party
  • Didymus Mutasa dithers
  • Football fuss
  • A botched prosecution
  • Drugs and thugs
  • And throw away the key
  • Al Shabaab targets Eritrea
  • Jackie Selebi on trial
  • Mr Moreno-Ocampo goes to Nairobi
  • The rise and rise of ethnic politics
  • From cowboys to corporates
  • President Koroma pledges 'We no go tire'
  • The smugglers make their fortunes
  • UN investigators challenge Khartoum
  • The race for second place
  • In favour and out of cash
  • China's new bid for Nigerian oil
  • Big oil and small print
  • The biggest reform of all
  • Khama control
  • 'Too many enemies'
  • Good judge, bad judge
  • Party time for the first family
  • Brand new MDM will challenge Frelimo
  • A dominant party – not a one-party state
  • Experts argue about Africa's prospects
  • Throwing out the neighbours
  • Blood on the stones
  • Jammeh says what he thinks
  • To catch a thief
  • Soldiers out of their depth
  • New faces in the justice system
  • A killing in Kakata
  • Abuja buys a Delta amnesty
  • After his release, Simon Mann seeks revenge and a book deal
  • Seeking power
  • Costly payment delays
  • Turkana hunger
  • Zuma's faith
  • Jolly Roger justice
  • France and the Fund apply pressure
  • Brazzaville counts on France and the IMF
  • It's the economy, probably
  • Khama's expected triumph
  • A year after the crash
  • Britain and bribes in Ghana
  • Washington unveils its new policy as tension rises throughout Sudan
  • The great World Bank capital chase
  • Corruption claims and rows tarnish Accra's record
  • Matebeleland fallout
  • Tsvangirai's walkout puts Mugabe on the backfoot
  • In and out
  • Conditional love
  • Old hat, new hat
  • Bankable Assets
  • Opposition in search of unity
  • Gunning down democracy
  • Leaving the door open
  • Family planning un-gagged
  • Africa joins the billion club
  • A family business
  • A renewed army, an old-style police
  • More power for Freetown
  • Congo-Kinshasa's big five mines
  • Dam intrigues
  • Mines, dollars and dams
  • A twist in the Thales
  • American airlift
  • Hybrid justice
  • Women at war
  • Leaders in waiting
  • A King takes on the President
  • Washington lobbyists stake claim
  • Which vulture flies?
  • Who's Who
  • Britain's demanding ally in Tripoli
  • A new diplomatic deal after four decades in power
  • Bondo welcomes Kibaki
  • The row over Aaron Ringera
  • A business and strategic foray
  • Why the banks stay optimistic
  • In this week's issue...
  • Glass houses
  • Election gloves off
  • Trafigura and the toxic waste
  • Sodom and tomorrow
  • The vote and the money
  • Nkurunziza's formula for victory
  • Food crisis
  • Dangers and dilemmas in the Horn of Africa
  • The flag follows the trade
  • Remaking an old relationship
  • After the bank purge, back to the politics
  • Khartoum and Beijing disagree
  • Khartoum pressures Southern Sudan over oil
  • Trafigura in court
  • Let my people go
  • Sweet freedom
  • Haunting Museveni
  • The commissioners of the TJRC
  • Mixed messages and sanction threats
  • Who (if anybody) will try the killers?
  • Suing the messenger
  • So far, so Zuma
  • An American road to Khartoum
  • A return ticket for security chief Salah Gosh
  • Shiri salutes, sort of
  • After Msika - a new pecking order
  • Greed, gold and grit
  • A new economic team emerges
  • Theatre, peace and votes in the Delta
  • After the boom, a purge
  • Washington backs the TFG
  • Parliamentary prosecutions
  • Vicente's Portuguese links
  • A general in waiting
  • After Bongo, more Bongo
  • Namibia's China disappearing act
  • Behind the sidelining of General Martin Shalli
  • The hard road to truth, justice and reconciliation
  • A stolen election, then a coalition
  • A 'government of national impunity'
  • The poorest protest
  • Township protestors take on the ANC government
  • Inside Boko Haram
  • Islamists raise the stakes as they take on Yar'Adua
  • In this week's issue...
  • Kofi Annan puts politicians on the spot over poll violence
  • Kenyan politicians face new deadline
  • The CIPEV's recommendations
  • Amnesty not honesty
  • Fifteen years of one-man rule
  • Charles Taylor gets his day in Court
  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - the sequel
  • International justice and its pitfalls
  • Eastern foes at war again
  • A multinational road to army reform
  • Aziz's strong-arm vote
  • Coalition chaos
  • Abyei arbitrage
  • No reconciliation, little truth
  • No free speech here
  • Go on, negotiate
  • Competition for Niger's uranium
  • President Tandja goes for a third term
  • Anglo American's CEO fights back
  • Anglo American seeks fresh capital
  • The missing suspects
  • The quest for justice after the genocide continues
  • Sonangol goes international
  • Half-time for Yar'Adua
  • Ghana's DC dividend
  • Obama's akwaaba moment
  • Washington's Africa team takes shape
  • Barack Obama launches his agenda in Ghana
  • No funeral for Françafrique
  • Poungui disqualified
  • Hide and seek
  • On top and in charge
  • Camara's reality television
  • The coup-making government lives on
  • 'Selling the South down the river'
  • Coup anniversary – 20 years of Islamist rule
  • Kikwete's bailout package
  • Unable to spend
  • Good news for some
  • Synchrobudgets
  • Tshwane's big five
  • Business beyond borders
  • The hard road to a new constitution
  • Tsvangirai carries the can
  • The hunt for Tompolo
  • Uhuru's accounting crisis
  • Jobs and votes
  • Curbing their enthusiasm
  • Après Bongo
  • How to win in a recession
  • Inside the four big oil traders
  • The other Pan-Africanists
  • Weapons for Darfur
  • Mistaken identity
  • Banana skin
  • Hanging tough
  • This time it will be different
  • Tajudeen Abdul Raheem
  • Akwaaba Obama
  • Who's counting?
  • The China choice
  • The cement boom
  • A public quarrel
  • A double win for Bingu
  • Looking for a sense of security
  • A filial succession
  • The contenders
  • The elections are coming, but don't hold your breath
  • Target Mogadishu
  • The telephone test
  • You've stood, now deliver
  • National, not regional
  • The fight gets more serious
  • Franc Afrique
  • Wade dynasty
  • Open sesame
  • Tactical defeat
  • Don't blame me!
  • Diamonds lose their shine
  • A credit-crunch presidency
  • Pax Guebuzana
  • Welome back, Chief Tony
  • Votes that don't add up
  • The security brigade
  • Pragmatism trumps ideology
  • Crime and amnesty
  • Until the stout lady sings
  • The challengers
  • A change is going to come
  • After the G-20, the money-go-around
  • Harder cash but warmer words
  • Losing the plot
  • Warnings
  • Speak easy
  • Do or die
  • An offshore imbroglio
  • Who is in charge here?
  • Brothers and enemies
  • Who shoots first?
  • Ernest's election
  • Keep someone else’s peace
  • No rally for the MDC
  • The fight over the basic law
  • On the line to Zuma
  • Learning to love Jacob Zuma
  • The bust and after
  • Oil without borders
  • And the good news
  • Museveni - from grand reformer to simply surviving
  • Une affaire de famille
  • Tendai Biti has a plan
  • Good-bye to Zimbabwe's dollar
  • From retreat to turnaround
  • Victory in a vacuum
  • Sums that don't add up
  • The Mills grind slowly
  • It's the political economy, stupid!
  • Zuma's surprise package
  • The contenders
  • The Halliburton trials
  • Integrity in question
  • Hamas and Hezbollah
  • His father's son
  • A reform deadline for the rivals
  • Inside the sealed envelope
  • In office, but not in power
  • Inevitable victory
  • The electors: a changing landscape
  • The battle in the provinces
  • Words like freedom
  • Don't forget your SIM card
  • Aller-retour
  • Libya and its African brothers
  • Air strikes and silence
  • Homemade toxic assets
  • Sanctions and finance
  • One nation, two conferences
  • Then there were two
  • Security in disguise
  • Controlling Parliament
  • Bredenkamp bites back
  • Sub-Saharan Africa's Economic Outlook: The Crisis Deepens
  • Prominent Empowerment Deals
  • The piracy menace
  • After the economic crash, the political fallout
  • Khartoum fights back
  • New battles for Darfur
  • An African 'war on terror'
  • BEE hits the credit crunch
  • Anti-pirate alliance
  • 'Andry TGV' takes over
  • Paying off grudges
  • Trouble in Kinshasa
  • Farewell, Lady Bongo
  • Ancestral spirits
  • Shake-up in Freetown
  • See you in the court
  • Unfinished business
  • Claims and counter-claims
  • A morality contest
  • Waiting in the wings
  • A brutal family business
  • A new federation
  • Omer the outlaw
  • Now blood gold
  • Worthless cash
  • Next, the mines
  • Caviar and cholera
  • Mutually assured destruction
  • Tesler trapped
  • Pushing Wako
  • The rebel's return
  • Alison Des Forges
  • New putsch, new players
  • Two horse race
  • Nice enough
  • Where is Al Shabaab now?
  • The Sheik Sharif show
  • The indispensable Manuel
  • Don't shoot the ambulance
  • Rich resources, little investment
  • Peace and the looming crisis
  • The briefcase tycoon is back
  • A mutual security pact
  • The ZANU team
  • The MDC line-up
  • A mixture, not a coalition
  • More couscous
  • Who dares, loses
  • Medical advice
  • The long arm
  • Small but strategic
  • Stalemate in the Western Sahara
  • Electoral juggernaut
  • House of Mubarak
  • Junta asks for time
  • Rumblings of dissent
  • The Gadaffi business
  • Reform-minded monarch
  • Is Rawlings the back-seat driver?
  • Lining up the Mills team
  • Who's who in the standoff
  • Politics curdle for the Yoghurt King
  • Copper slide
  • High stakes in the Gonopoly game
  • Harare's new rule book
  • Power-sharing for bankrupt beginners
  • Shotgun wedding
  • The summit divides over unity
  • Diversions and deviations at the Summit
  • Why Jos burned
  • Good-bye, maybe
  • Ghana's chance
  • Oil ballot
  • Serious fraud hunt
  • Topping the charts
  • Out on a limb
  • Africa scrambles for Africa
  • Abidjan's anglos
  • Une autre entente
  • Hornet's nest
  • Political chemistry
  • Dubious democracy
  • Many complaints, some satisfaction
  • Trial and error
  • Central Africa's schism
  • West Africa, according to Mr Taylor
  • No surrender, no deal
  • Economic facts and fantasies
  • Back to the battleground
  • Credits crunched
  • Yom Ashura
  • Guards for sale
  • Khartoum's bankers
  • Biya rejects the Ghana model
  • Zuma versus the law
  • A rift among rebels
  • New rules for the oil business
  • A gathering storm
  • Bargaining with warlords
  • No longer at ease
  • New politics, new threats
  • The new men under fire
  • A popular putsch, so far
  • Before and after the voting
  • Two and a half cheers for democracy
  • Old wounds, new crises
  • Courts and killings
  • Whiskey doubles all round
  • The end game speeds up
  • A new landscape unfolds
  • Trying to cope
  • Zuma's Christmas
  • Here for the beer
  • Jungle justice
  • Out with an editor
  • Back to Addis
  • A sheikh returns to the fray
  • Another third term in Africa
  • Boutef, the Life President
  • Hunting the killers
  • Who fixed the election and how
  • More unga than chungwa
  • Nkunda wants the whole deal
  • Crisis? What crisis?
  • No change we can believe in
  • Mutinies, money and Mugabe
  • More pressure on the cedi
  • The winner has to wait
  • Pirates and the lads
  • Corruption credentials
  • Diabolical quarrels
  • Identifying the problems
  • Swapping Stakes
  • Slowdown hits the sparklers
  • Dialogue of the deaf
  • Master political survivor
  • Biya's grip
  • How to reinvent Black Economic Empowerment
  • Where the parties get their funds
  • Who arms Laurent Nkunda?
  • Shooting down a president
  • The business of politics
  • Mining downturn
  • A message from our sponsors
  • Making money with Britain's help
  • Greed in a time of cholera
  • Towards Mali
  • Mutual aid
  • Espion embarrassant
  • Anonymous commerce
  • A kidnapped colonel
  • A mysterious US$100 million
  • The Gono hot air balloon
  • The aid debate: good, bad or misplaced
  • Bringing in the harvest
  • How smuggling pays for killing
  • The man who says no
  • Nujoma's grasp
  • Banda boxes clever
  • Banda, the successor
  • Changes ahead for UN forces
  • Among the survivors
  • The waiting game
  • Three's a crowd
  • Forever delayed
  • Minority politics
  • Economy: Trouble in the markets
  • Nigeria's banks: double or quits
  • The youth game gets older
  • Two brutal stalemates
  • Facing Nkunda
  • The Left's alternative economics
  • Squaring the circle
  • Kony's new front
  • Islamic alliance
  • Pirates and tanks
  • Corruption countdown
  • The Waki report
  • Calling politicians to account
  • Africa and the credit crash
  • Sweet FA
  • The Kivu impasse
  • A one-sided election
  • The breakaways
  • All politics is provincial
  • On the verge of a nervous breakdown
  • Hunger stalks the land
  • Mugabe rearranges the deckchairs
  • A diamond power play
  • Diplomats on the campaign trail
  • Obama rings the changes
  • Brothers reunited
  • Khartoum's strategy
  • Spiralling serpents
  • Pre-presidential discord
  • Financial and political chaos
  • The Millennium stops here
  • All my friends in New York
  • Arms and the boys
  • Brotherly love
  • Spreading toxicity
  • Alarmed allies
  • Farms are the key
  • Politicians parley, people starve
  • Next, the economic battle
  • Another ethnic scramble
  • Graft never really went away
  • Forest contracts review
  • Prime Minister departs
  • Would be breakaway
  • 'Elder brother' Motlanthe
  • A wounded presidency
  • Treaty testing
  • Copper crunch
  • Frequent flyers
  • Pushing out patronage
  • The President's men
  • All about power
  • Who's counting?
  • Men of honour
  • Jet set and match
  • Spinning south
  • King's move
  • Paris and the prince
  • Taylorland under siege
  • My enemy's enemy
  • Pride and prejudice
  • It's the economy
  • The General's election
  • Concrete overcoats
  • Tin soldiers
  • Pirates afloat
  • Exorcising demons
  • The ANC – a luta continua
  • Politicians versus judges
  • The Angolagate trial
  • The storm before the storm
  • The Darfur dance
  • A rough beginning
  • Stand and deliver
  • Running mates
  • Deals after the deal
  • Political theatre
  • A three-legged race
  • Banned, still deadly
  • Francophone fronts
  • Conference calls
  • Cyril and the suits
  • Hard talk in Kinshasa
  • Up with Biwott
  • Voting violence
  • Unhealthy talk
  • Adenuga's back
  • The drones club
  • A cocaine coup fails
  • Two virgins
  • The son also rises
  • The dead bite back
  • Who wants to run the country?
  • A hard act to follow
  • It's go-go with Gono
  • Mnangagwa's second coming
  • Commissions galore
  • The evidence unfolds
  • Muzzling the media
  • Campaign coffers
  • Elections at last
  • Service shuffle
  • Truculent two
  • Bin Laden's bridge
  • After Levy
  • Quiet coup
  • Iron ore, jaw-jaw
  • The high price of political phones
  • Right number, right time
  • The grounds for complaint
  • In the dock for the bombings
  • Delta forces
  • Wasteful wars, foreign friends
  • The rot at the top
  • Our mutual friend
  • The Nogo and Gono show
  • Bristling border
  • The names and the shame
  • How the fighting spread
  • Blame the judges
  • Presidents and lawyers
  • Coalition under strain
  • Bogged down
  • Fru Ndi's trial
  • The real deal
  • Fourth for M7
  • Jam-packed
  • The judges, lawyers and ministers
  • Judges of the Constitutional Court
  • Taking positions
  • Saving Omer
  • A sick man's contest
  • Yar'Adua's judges on trial
  • Arms and the men
  • Britain and the sanctions question
  • War crimes
  • Boom time
  • Not much enlightenment
  • Zuma takes the provinces
  • The Colonel's shopping spree
  • A hotel, a minister and a scandal
  • Wako's war
  • Land grab
  • Radio Silence
  • 'If you have a gun you attack everything in front of you'
  • Abyei - a border that shapes the future
  • Not the plane truth
  • Pirates of the Horn
  • ZANU-PF stashes the cash
  • Transatlantic tryst
  • Virtual voters
  • Soldier go, soldier come
  • Authoritarian notes
  • Ivorian auction
  • Industrial revolution
  • No case, no answer
  • The competition heats up
  • Skimming a bad system
  • Democratic deficit
  • Kony causes trouble again
  • A slightly cracked coalition
  • Friends old and new
  • Daughters and generals
  • One party rule
  • The Russians are coming
  • Time to reshuffle
  • Slow turnaround
  • Keep an eye on Mnangagwa
  • Can the party hold together?
  • Where the government gets its money
  • Deaths and deals
  • Leaving for Lomé
  • Look in The Mirror
  • Une autre entente II
  • Mining the depths
  • Down with tariffs
  • Franc-zone to Euroland
  • Morgan's third way
  • The fire this time
  • Somali ceasefire signed
  • Shooting war in Djibouti
  • Getting their own back
  • Graft at the top
  • After the politics, the money
  • The region grows – despite politics and prices
  • The neighbours start to turn
  • The praise singing club
  • Yar'Adua boosts oil production
  • Slaughter on the border
  • The Ibori test
  • At the circus
  • Third term triangle
  • Tourist trap
  • Tough times
  • The khaki election
  • Diamond horror
  • Mawere against Mugabe
  • Correction
  • Sanctions and standards
  • A family business
  • Once more the President's man
  • Biya's purge
  • The cracks spread
  • Locked up
  • Off with their heads
  • Change in Chikomba
  • Fighting democracy – Mugabe's last stand
  • Quiet President, worried country
  • A last chance reshuffle
  • Paying the price
  • Bemba under arrest
  • Apartheid's awful legacy
  • Ulenga's challenge
  • Lomé minus Lomé
  • Muddy waters
  • Disunited kingdom
  • Gouled's choice
  • War in the mountains
  • Boutef is bounced back
  • Washington Who's Who
  • London's laundries
  • Nuclear nexus
  • James Lemkin
  • Oil is expensive: water, anyone?
  • A look on the bright side
  • In the rain-forrest
  • A dangerous invasion
  • Money battles
  • Judge Kriegler looks into the elections
  • Grand coalition - its divisions and prospects
  • A targeted killing
  • Abyei devastated
  • Who is JEM?
  • Battle of Omdurman
  • Battle lines in Washington and Africa
  • Brand new Zuma washes whiter
  • Mnangagwa's return to form
  • Dealing with a wounded tiger
  • Good COPS, bad COPS
  • Oddly normal II
  • Under cover
  • Wojciech Chodan, Pepys and Shell
  • The gas ghost keeps haunting
  • It's the price that counts
  • Peace deal in shreds
  • Drifting apart
  • Hidden depths
  • The stand against Mugabe
  • Sick man, sick opposition
  • The departed return
  • Fighting the Fund
  • Accidental coup
  • Bongo for Bill
  • Deadly diamonds
  • Shell-shocked
  • The fiscal fight
  • The military imbalance
  • Fantasy rules
  • The $2.7 billion hole in the bank
  • Abubakar's offer
  • Bongo's lobby fest
  • Enemies within
  • World-class war
  • Provincial power struggle
  • Confusions in the Cape
  • Whitehall's Africa team
  • Diplomacy with attitude
  • Publishing pearl
  • Lightning strike
  • Big Wheels
  • Island initiative
  • Oil-fired warfare
  • Uneasy peace
  • Compulsory coalition
  • Golden parachutes
  • Eritrea and its cousins
  • Regional collisions
  • It's Omar II
  • Fernandez letter
  • Forced to talk
  • Muluzi's democracy test
  • Divided republic
  • Crisis brings opportunity
  • Reforms, but not radical
  • Cash call
  • Politique a l'Americaine
  • Number crunching
  • Vicious voting
  • The peace process teams
  • The peace deal that wasn't
  • Oceanic turnaround
  • The opposition line-up
  • Can the opposition fight and can it rule?
  • It's not over yet
  • Oddly normal
  • Gluttons for punishment
  • In the fog of peace
  • Unhealthy prospects
  • Open season on Obasanjo
  • Gaydamak goes
  • Cabinet crisis
  • Biya amendment
  • Trouble at Mills's
  • The best elections money can buy
  • Treading on the corn
  • Diamond power
  • New man, new discipline
  • Nigeria takes on Big Oil
  • Lake Albert and the gushers
  • Big oil, dear oil, new oil
  • The main points of the Abyei Protocol
  • The real dividing line
  • The hyperinflation club
  • Tsvangirai's transient victory
  • The ugly endgame
  • Reforming the reformers
  • Down, not out
  • Figuring it out
  • Gauteng for Mbeki
  • Sitting target
  • Butcher Shop
  • Jollies and jets
  • Hotel Hellacious
  • Nightmare on Broad Street
  • The vultures gather
  • Addis plays its diplomatic cards
  • The border deadlock
  • La Françafrique est morte, vive la Françafrique
  • The spirit moves them
  • The ex-revolutionary front
  • Marking ballots, selling shares
  • Harare eyes the Kenyan model
  • The sick man of the south
  • Cocaine coast
  • Goma's ghosts
  • Inscrutable Khama
  • King Bauxite
  • First clean up, then list
  • Stash the cash
  • Moses on the mountain
  • Down the mines
  • Life after a game of golf
  • Trans-Century and transcendental
  • Second honeymoon for the money men
  • Missing the target
  • The road to ruin
  • Elections within elections
  • The people versus Biya
  • On the brink of a deal
  • A birthday at Beitbridge
  • Constituency carve-ups
  • Technical knock-out
  • The Harambee House deal
  • An outbreak of cordiality
  • Lifting the bamboo curtain
  • Bush, the farewell tour
  • Not on parade
  • Local is national
  • The Wade summit
  • Politics of the budget
  • Putting figures on it
  • Thunder on the left
  • Selective divestment
  • Mission position
  • Party probe
  • Bad marks
  • Indicting Kigali
  • The Hillary effect
  • From Chikurubi to Blackbeach
  • Power crisis
  • Cleaning the stables
  • Papers and death merchants
  • Delays in deployment
  • Beyond the borders
  • Déby – caught between Paris and Khartoum
  • Message from the wazungu
  • The safari talks
  • In the lion's den
  • The real Makoni stands up
  • Electrical and political power cuts
  • Divided House in Cape Town
  • Cocaine cops
  • Wealthy sovereigns
  • Ordinary rendition
  • Makoni's mouth
  • Military options
  • The spurned advisor at State House
  • The soldiers wait in the wings
  • Presidents, gems and trade
  • One Conakry, two Lansanas
  • Economic crisis without borders
  • Bring in the money
  • Kabila's men, Kabila's jobs
  • Déjà Kivu
  • Oil and Abuja: A rockier relationship
  • Judgment day is coming
  • Taxing times
  • Higher level
  • Father and son
  • Accounting problems
  • Frontier market
  • The gang's all here
  • Handshakes at dusk
  • Panic, what panic?
  • 'I know the corrupt'
  • Show time for the spooks
  • Zuma's people on top
  • The party is not yet split
  • Jumping ship
  • The heart of the matter
  • Looking for a leader
  • The centre versus the rest
  • Politics and Economics in 2008
  • Elite and underground politics
  • Unjust deserts in the Western Sahara
  • From war to peace
  • Lev Leviev lands in London
  • Kingmakers and charlatans
  • A slow road to travel
  • Political hurdles ahead
  • The Indian Ocean swells
  • Kenya moves closer to the edge
  • Election shockwaves spread
  • Cross patch
  • Mnangagwa momentum
  • Pitching camp
  • Bank blow
  • With a little help from his friends
  • Copper-clad deals
  • At last, a possible peace
  • Race to the top
  • A peninsula war
  • The oil governor under arrest
  • See you in court
  • Not quite indispensable
  • 'Unstoppable tsunami'
  • From the Muthaiga Club to the hustings
  • Raila and Team Tinga
  • Closer and closer
  • Two crocodiles
  • Koroma's Christmas present
  • Regal rivalry
  • The wrong report
  • Ethiopia's options
  • A new man in Mogadishu
  • The Africa Forum
  • Three men in a boat
  • On the edges of the club
  • Moving on
  • Secretarial duties
  • Mr Secretary Sharma
  • Friendly in Kampala
  • Mbeki to the rescue
  • The third man or possibly - woman
  • Zuming ahead
  • Breaking up the party
  • The cedi and pesewa vote
  • Who spends, wins
  • Sanctions sense
  • Guerre du lac
  • Mining undermined
  • Animated suspension
  • Conflict diamonds change shape
  • Less blood on the stones
  • Promises and lies
  • Judges misjudged
  • Wading in
  • All come to the aid of the party – and fight it out
  • The tail wags the dog
  • The compromise candidates
  • This time I'm going. No, really
  • Two hotels go missing
  • Problematic peace as the Commonwealth meets
  • Fund furore and banking bailout
  • New chiefs now, new policies later
  • Scrum half
  • Brown's boycott
  • Digging Belinga
  • In loco parentis
  • The wooing of Kinshasa
  • No borders against trouble
  • Which rules? Whose laws?
  • Godfathers, the sequel
  • Raiding the camps
  • Sam bows out again
  • Conflict in a lakeside church
  • His friend Bob
  • Shooting the messenger
  • Comprehensively breached
  • The Mo Laureate
  • Bond bonanza
  • Renaissance woman
  • Security seats
  • Trading places
  • The new man picks his team
  • Take me to your traditional leader
  • A king's ransom
  • Zuma, Buthelezi and the Zulu nation
  • How many states for the north?
  • Fall out at the top
  • Bad history
  • Wait while we connect you
  • Salva and the Salvation regime
  • Wrong number again
  • Surfing the surge
  • Healing the rift
  • That troublesome border
  • A Katsina man in New York
  • Ban Ki-moon's people
  • Debuts on First Avenue
  • The 'Soro ranks'
  • A do-it-yourself peace
  • Mining men
  • Contract committee
  • Contracts under review
  • Le scandale géologique
  • Intelligence in a divided house
  • Zuma in the sights
  • Exit Pikoli, Chief Prosecutor
  • Doctor, doctor
  • The opposition advantage
  • Trebles all round
  • Southern warning
  • Kasongo v CAMEC
  • Boots nearer to the ground
  • Best election dirhams could buy
  • Revolt in the desert
  • Roots of the ONLF rebellion
  • The Ogaden's trickling sands
  • The banishing of Billy
  • No holds barred
  • Turbulent priests
  • Signs of movement
  • A clean sweep, maybe
  • No ode to joy
  • Yellowcake rebellion
  • A turn for the worse
  • Leaky bucket
  • Putting the country to work
  • Darfur deadlines
  • Cocaine central
  • Secretarial duties
  • Old timers and first timers
  • Africa moves up the agenda
  • Mugabe's people in the provinces
  • He keeps on winning
  • More fighting, more aid
  • Gas project haunts politicians
  • A tale of two cities
  • Unhealthy (II)
  • Unhealthy (I)
  • Smokescreen
  • Neighbours undercover
  • The race to win
  • Who's Who in the war and peace talks
  • Half and half
  • Mission improbable
  • Non-Government Who's Who
  • Government Who's Who
  • Ottawa rewrites the diplomatic and commercial rules
  • Breaking the political mould
  • Closer and more credible
  • Doing good, not doing well
  • Tinga's tractor in top gear
  • Politicians overboard
  • Boiling point
  • Winning ways
  • Rapture not rupture
  • Sam the lifer
  • Going wrong again
  • Parties turn to the young guards
  • Electoral arithmetic
  • Back-biting
  • Rumours and plots
  • Making haste slowly
  • No contest
  • Personal not proportional
  • The first-round fight
  • The Millennium deal
  • More blood, more cash
  • Death of a general
  • Post-presidential
  • Mugging Miala
  • Clipping Taiwan
  • Tower of power
  • Jacques et le juge
  • Unity on a smaller scale
  • Election failure
  • Can't pay, won't pay
  • South Africa's Communists: The People
  • A Communist manifestation - the return of the left
  • White Nile sees red in the south
  • Salva's shuffle
  • Judging the judges
  • Justice at a price
  • Ministerial and musical chairs
  • Everyone's in the race
  • Long arms
  • Bank robbery
  • Brownie points
  • Nkunda in the hills
  • Books on the boom
  • Tokyo's business village
  • Cyril the suit and his assets
  • The race for the presidency heats up as business joins in
  • Economics of the sieve
  • Politics of the sieve
  • Good week, bad year
  • The Gadaffi caravan moves on
  • Nkrumah's second coming
  • Unfunny money
  • Yellow card
  • Francophilie
  • Paris to Lusaka
  • The Nile flows on
  • Mbeki's triumph
  • Where's the door?
  • New team, old players
  • Exeunt sojas
  • All hail to the chief
  • Kivu clashes ahead
  • Sarko's team
  • Unity? Who with?
  • All aboard
  • The clock turns back
  • The cocaine web spreads
  • Post-war hopes hit trouble
  • Warriors by proxy
  • Unlikely meeting of minds
  • In denial, in extremis
  • Intelligent design
  • At the barrel of a gun
  • Rival refugees
  • Bienvenue à Alger
  • Gem gumshoes
  • Chissano tastes success
  • Close shave
  • Powers behind the throne
  • Mbeki the mystery
  • The National Islamic Front on parade
  • The NIF goes on a charm offensive
  • Russian roulette
  • Eat the document
  • Sanction action
  • Blood chocolate
  • The Vulcan has landed
  • Africa's new debtors
  • Life without Jacques
  • A strange alliance
  • Cosa Namibia
  • Sam and son of Sam
  • Brown and the Brownites
  • From Blair to Brown
  • Terror comes home to roost
  • Campaign confusion
  • Champagne in the Delta
  • The new man in Abuja
  • Not my party
  • Grounded
  • Kabila gets a rival
  • The Bank test
  • Banished ballots
  • In the front ranks
  • Room at the top
  • The troops see red
  • The Western response
  • Year of the Pig - the new scramble for Africa
  • A wolf in the Congo
  • Dollars and mines
  • Big plans for power, roads and water
  • The Shanghai set
  • Kaberuka seizes the moment
  • Privatising politics
  • Border blues
  • EU exports
  • A deal in Lomé
  • A hard act to follow
  • Savimbi's splitters
  • Ethnic straitjackets
  • Fighting talk
  • Exit Arkady
  • Judges swoop
  • Noble's demise
  • Vote later, vote often
  • Jacob and the dog collar
  • L'Avenir c'est Sarko
  • Vultures over Lusaka
  • Stop thief
  • La caravane passe au Mali
  • A break with the past
  • Congo-Kinshasa's cumbersome experiment
  • Oppositionists and activists struggle to shake out the system
  • Africa's mission undermined
  • Caught in the act
  • Up for the cup
  • A new white hope
  • Giant steps
  • A troubled transition
  • Kabila's last throw
  • Arranged marriages
  • Tripoli calling
  • Robbing Peter . . .
  • Micro-state struggles
  • Power cuts
  • Totally elfin
  • Alger l'Africaine
  • Tougher talk
  • Oiling the wheels of peace
  • Showing who's boss
  • French hook
  • The past awakes
  • Going nuclear Russian-style
  • Pass the hat around
  • The trials of Wolfowitz
  • Politicians and their parties
  • ATT seeks takokélén
  • Mogadishu clear up
  • The Jihadists' friend
  • The great gamble
  • Khalifa in court
  • Under attack
  • Uneasy truce in Delta State
  • The men from the south
  • The dealmaking begins
  • Rendition confusion
  • Chukka, not pukka
  • Areva in hot water
  • Going nuclear
  • Economy
  • Under new management
  • The bashing of Bemba
  • Analysis
  • Kabbah in a hurry
  • Aid and votes
  • Table
  • Too many parties spoil the polls
  • Yar'Adua prepares for power
  • Jacques' jaunt
  • Out of Africa
  • Gerald's jeep
  • Presidential field
  • Too close to call
  • U-turns, screw turns
  • Leakey's big game
  • Problematic peace
  • Desert kingdom or desert republic?
  • Our friend, the new king
  • No jogging
  • ADO ado
  • Gas mask
  • On the fringe of a war
  • A hammer to a nut
  • Manège à trois
  • Old unions, new ANC
  • Not for turning
  • Clearly confusing
  • Obasanjo's one hundred days
  • Self-determination
  • Muddy votes
  • Moi's no-shuffle
  • Choppy waters
  • Chinja maitiro!
  • Nervous tension
  • Friends fall out
  • Complex war, ambitious peace
  • Constitution clampdown
  • Changement dans la sérénité
  • A blow-up blows over
  • Deadly collaboration
  • Oil's new power
  • A frontier affair
  • The wealth in common
  • Rough justice
  • How to put it together again - as the Mugabe regime totters
  • Regional ructions
  • Coming to the aid of the parties
  • No-party politics rule
  • Claims on Kebble's gold
  • First murder, now money
  • Trouble in the neighbourhood
  • Discontent in the air
  • Muluzi the Third
  • The thirsty wait for water
  • The kidnap mystery
  • To chop or to save - the main players
  • Can the trees be saved?
  • All their own work
  • The neighbours are unstable
  • Referee in a tug-of-war
  • Measuring the dirty money
  • Financial secrecy
  • Which clan is in charge now?
  • Peacekeepers under fire
  • Soft sell at 50
  • Cash and blood on the streets
  • Beware the Ides of March
  • Mosisili's snap victory
  • Trade union truce
  • Bad medicine
  • Southern front
  • First steps
  • Pipe Dreams
  • Zambia's big new investments
  • The bitter side of the boom
  • Mining revolt
  • A highly political budget
  • Chirac's last Cannes-Cannes
  • Wade gets his way
  • A rare soldiering success
  • Hinga's death hits home
  • Indictments, then elections
  • The grudge match goes on
  • Global prisoner
  • Authoritarian alliances
  • Senegal Elections 2007
  • SWAPO splinters
  • China in Chambeshi
  • Buying time
  • Anniversary boycott
  • Toxic traffic
  • Shuffling the deckchairs
  • Conté goes another round
  • Who counts in the Darfur rebellion?
  • The commanders confer
  • Women in power
  • Muluzi on the record
  • Ethnic alarums
  • Odinga and the Oranges
  • Kabila's yes-men
  • Winner takes (almost) all
  • Cyril eyes the presidency
  • Raining on the parade
  • No deal for Seck
  • Bond breakthrough
  • Snowe white-out
  • Minni on the rampage
  • Guebuza and governance
  • Upwards and onwards
  • Ghana's gain
  • The snubbing of Sudan
  • How crooks still exploit the system
  • The Addis to Mogadishu axis
  • Two peas in a pod
  • The strike that shook Conté
  • Buhari's election headlines
  • What future for the reform team?
  • Party pieces
  • Polls postponed
  • Bad moon rising
  • Strangers in the night
  • Who said what to whom?
  • Promised land
  • Enter the capitalists
  • Packaging the peacekeepers
  • Gushing higher
  • Breaking the line
  • South Africa's spat
  • How to run a continent
  • Bailing out President Mugabe
  • New Year election blues
  • Tafidan's ghost
  • Marching across the border
  • Peace but no keepers
  • Politics and Economics in 2007
  • Waiting in line
  • Succession sagas
  • The new frontlines
  • The Pharoah's long adieu
  • Old soldiers never die
  • Generals and lawyers
  • On the brink
  • Candidates and rivals
  • Annivesaries and elections
  • Annual Conference
  • Law wars
  • Trade-off
  • Crossing the river
  • Hotel Mogadishu
  • Crossed lines
  • An economic fairy tale
  • Joining the big league
  • Washington shuffle
  • Testing Mittal's steel
  • Economy up, politics down
  • Peace and security
  • Khartoum's proxies
  • Militias and the South
  • The Southern front reopens
  • Penalty shoot-out
  • Knocking out the lion's teeth
  • Retaliatory justice
  • Resolution riddles
  • Grafters' gridlock
  • Comeback couples
  • Atiku again
  • Forget the politics, say advisors
  • Powering up
  • The President speaks
  • Investigation down under
  • No win, no gain
  • Voters and protestors start to register
  • A plan from the centre
  • Sudan targets Chad
  • Defining the peacekeepers
  • The Darfur deadline passes
  • La grande rupture
  • The police chief, his friends and foes
  • Help, murder, police!
  • Carpet crossing
  • Presidential chopper
  • Vila Algarve
  • Turki's landing
  • All property is theft
  • The established producers
  • The new exploration grounds
  • Digging a black hole
  • After the results
  • Sekibo and the drones
  • An outsider moves up the list
  • Breaking the arms embargo
  • The Mujuru political network
  • Surreal succession
  • Banny's bonus
  • Madonna madness
  • Ill-judged death
  • Missing in action
  • Fear of flying
  • Legal minefields
  • Economic star, social crisis
  • Upbeat Statisticians
  • Beyond the Horn
  • Commerce, cooperation and controversy
  • The Dutch diversion
  • Wars across borders
  • Boots on the ground
  • Starstruck Starcrest
  • The next election deadline
  • Contretemps
  • Toxic trials
  • Riek's battalion
  • Kobi's refuge
  • Signal from Saudi
  • No man an island
  • No EASSY rider
  • Diamond dollars
  • Diamonds, gold and guns
  • Who is eligible to vote?
  • The road to the ANC's 2007 National Conference
  • The ANC's toughest election yet
  • All for one, not yet
  • The Titanic sails at dawn
  • Brothers in Armenia
  • The anti-corruption collapse
  • Carole Collins
  • Sam sues
  • Radio row
  • The West's weakness
  • Jammeh tomorrow
  • Let it walk
  • Toxic timeline
  • The toxic trade
  • Cairo's costly hubris
  • Pride and prejudice
  • No consensus on the census
  • Leaving it late
  • Peace postponed
  • Enter ex-Presidents
  • Back in the fold
  • Khartoum's jihadis
  • Crying Wolfowitz
  • One of us cannot be wrong
  • Déby supreme, for now
  • Ambitions in the north
  • Pots, kettles and corruption
  • Easy for Jammeh
  • A bull in China's shop
  • Gosh again
  • Biya goes on and on
  • Dubious coup
  • Mbeki's diplomatic team
  • New powers, new policy
  • Heading north
  • Mission Mogadishu
  • A threat to the Horn and beyond
  • The forces in Darfur's war
  • Presidential hopefuls take to the road
  • Countdown for Conté
  • Explosive results
  • Troubled talks
  • Sam and the successors
  • The real rebels
  • Cabinda dreaming
  • Starter's orders
  • Zapping the zeroes
  • A political resurrection
  • Undercurrent
  • Bredenkamp busted
  • Democratic deficits
  • Levy and King Cobra
  • Budget bludgeon
  • Flirting with the enemy
  • After Darfur's deal
  • Courts without authority
  • Two elections, one country
  • Khartoum's veto
  • Challengers step up
  • Snow white
  • The governor's dues
  • Up close and personal
  • Front-runners and hopefuls
  • A new political season
  • Pressure mounts to end neglect of the North
  • Opening broadside
  • Pause in St Petersburg
  • Charles Janson
  • Unhappy returns
  • Time's up
  • Zanzibar: the islands are quiet for now
  • Zero tolerance, so far
  • New Luanda's gleaming towers
  • Beijing's embrace
  • Beijing's touring team
  • Pomp and patronage
  • Posturing outweighs the policy
  • Ndebele intrigue
  • Starting guns
  • Reformers reshuffle
  • Dutch probe
  • The Armenian connection
  • Islamist takeover
  • Candidates wanted
  • Drying up growth
  • Les jeux sont faits
  • The vote that nobody wins
  • Green revolution
  • AU friends
  • At the sick bed
  • Aliyu and the drones
  • Old faces
  • The signs are rusting
  • Tough talking
  • Smiling all the way
  • Head to head
  • The cocaine conspiracy
  • Hard talk at No.10
  • Cocoa wars
  • Omissions
  • Konaré's stopover
  • Uncle Sam's ban
  • Slapping the messenger
  • Kaberuka's new team
  • Star-studded in Ouaga
  • Southern discomfort
  • Taping the LRA
  • Terror in Mogadishu
  • Business backers
  • Pop goes the third term balloon
  • Filling the lanterns
  • Bakili's bullets
  • The heart of the matter
  • There goes the party
  • The new two
  • Who's in charge here?
  • JZ is innocent, so far
  • Who makes the shirts?
  • It's the government, stupid
  • Brass at the top
  • The Spill Blood succession
  • Air heads
  • Cutting corners
  • Sick note
  • Oddest bedfellows
  • Where sick men rule
  • Foreign fingers
  • Déby hangs on
  • Veteran rebels
  • Monster party
  • Jacob Zuma's money
  • All eyes on Phumzile
  • Shutting up shop
  • The inspectors call
  • Foreign funds
  • Third term unlucky
  • Old contenders, new hopefuls
  • New politics at last
  • Identity crisis
  • A shortage of sparkle
  • The accused
  • Courting disaster
  • Taylor's trajectories
  • Lackadaisical list
  • Enter kingmakers
  • Treason's delays
  • Twilight of the chameleon
  • Khartoum's long arm
  • The hostile host
  • The big guns salute
  • Election budget
  • On the frontline
  • Pressing for a deal
  • Professional risks
  • Now you see him
  • Divided on debt
  • Tentative
  • The Cahora Bassa takeover
  • Remaking Guebuza
  • Zuma speaks
  • Local grumbles
  • Biting the snake
  • In the hole
  • Exporting the vote
  • Stealing, fighting, seeking power
  • Showdown in the Delta
  • Adeus espião
  • Rich pickings
  • Bingu's gamble
  • Names and blames
  • Man with a plan?
  • Swapover
  • Nujoma won't go
  • Trouble in the east
  • Looking into the abyss
  • Losing and winning
  • Museveni wins, at a price
  • Ten per cent
  • Judges and generals
  • Smooth operator
  • The pink card
  • Africa's loss
  • Waiting but not sitting
  • Not all necessary powers
  • Copper friendly
  • For growth, a new acronym
  • Growing pains, legal pain
  • The hawks are circling
  • US hurricane
  • Booted out
  • Confucius, he say
  • The President's generals
  • Human wrongs
  • Mystery kidnappers
  • Making the President nervous
  • Losers can win too
  • The anti-corruption czar, the businessman and his lawyer
  • Going down with the ship
  • Bane of Banny
  • Death in the canal
  • 'Drowning season'
  • Poll postponed
  • Changing regimes
  • Stout party splits
  • 'Beyond that now'
  • In cabinet
  • Hope at last
  • The Sino-Shango pact
  • A New Year offensive
  • Politics and Economics in 2006
  • Voters' voices
  • Trials and tribulations
  • Ponderous politicians
  • Electoral expectations
  • Oil and oligarchs
  • Bye bye Bayelsa
  • Political petroleum Inc.
  • Teflon Jammeh
  • Mr and Mrs
  • Mwai's muddle
  • A failing finale
  • Not so sweet
  • Another front, another deal
  • Democracy with fangs
  • Money-go-round
  • Cinderella and the generals
  • Generals, gems and graft
  • Talking up trade
  • On the runway
  • Senate subterfuge
  • Counting on oil
  • Privatisation flood
  • Strong boss, weaker party
  • Five years
  • Tummy tuck, bellyache
  • A good week for Mbeki
  • Oranges up, bananas down
  • Smashing the fruit bowl
  • Splitting the difference
  • Fear changes sides
  • Disbelief suspended
  • Corruption poll
  • Abacha's verdict
  • Ten years after
  • Circling the wagons
  • Vanishing votes
  • Birthday blues
  • Tears, fears and a martyr
  • Off-road rage
  • Madam President
  • Transition starts here
  • Peace for now
  • Explosive uranium
  • Captive Kolélas
  • Flying flu
  • Breaking point, again
  • Time's up
  • Follow the money
  • Politicians on notice
  • Armed and dangerous
  • Museveni's military
  • Homecomings
  • Island story
  • Bongo-gate
  • MDC muddle
  • Totally broke
  • A proxy election
  • Khartoum's game
  • Fighting the battle of Jericho
  • Gunmen or soldiers?
  • No truce yet
  • Penalty shoot out
  • Disaster
  • South Africa: If Zuma walks free
  • Post haste
  • Congo connection
  • A judge on his travels
  • Out and about
  • Ravalomanana Inc.
  • Billing and couping
  • They were all contenders
  • Flying with Solo B
  • No polls, no peace
  • Bad marriage vows
  • In the driving seat
  • Turning the corner
  • Hamutenya returns
  • Control
  • Cross to bear
  • Radical cheque
  • Moving the Movement
  • A test for the peers
  • Kikwete opts for continuity
  • All eyes on the islands
  • Welcome to the world
  • The soccer vote
  • Insecurity council
  • The good, the bad and the ugly rumours
  • Private coups
  • Clamped
  • Euro-observations
  • Terror imperative
  • Karanga calling
  • Islamists at work
  • Roadblock
  • Politics behind the trial
  • Githongo picks up the glove
  • Banana-skin vote
  • Players on parade
  • Power show
  • Size doesn't matter
  • Death by plane
  • Khama digs in
  • Paper tigers
  • Pohamba's graft test
  • Stuck in the Mittal
  • Blaming each other
  • Who is Salva?
  • Military manoeuvres
  • Opening the gates
  • Gunning for JZ
  • Trying the Veep
  • On edge
  • Inside track
  • Prizes for all
  • Full circle
  • Dancing partners
  • Trying talks
  • Reining in the military
  • Oil, dollars and votes
  • Half a cheer for democracy
  • Garang's last journey
  • Without Garang
  • Enlightenment
  • Diamond battles
  • Who let the dogs out?
  • Mission to China
  • Stalin's textbook
  • Sopi and Seck
  • Pressure points
  • Freedom unfledged
  • A tree, a house, a president
  • Notes on a scandal
  • The net widens
  • Debt and security
  • Torturers beware
  • Another third term
  • No sugar daddy
  • Legal losses
  • Who's who in the struggle
  • Deadlock
  • Peace postponed
  • Making up
  • Talking it over
  • Unkindest cuts
  • Yala the spoiler
  • More ships ahoy!
  • Post-election massacre
  • A matter of graft
  • Under new management
  • The brightness is fading
  • The clans line up
  • Diverted flight
  • Revolution day
  • A province says no
  • A trial for the ANC
  • Factions and fractions
  • Dominant Dominique
  • Undiplomatic closure
  • Watergate, the sequel
  • One law for the poor
  • Soccer, Islam and hard times
  • Brassed off: a contractor under fire
  • Blood over oil
  • Hotel Hullaballoo
  • Born again Stalinism
  • Marc and the miners
  • Corruption and conviction
  • Bozizé's win
  • Surreal
  • Watch this space
  • WMD
  • A man from Anjouan
  • Three into one
  • Through a glass very darkly
  • Vultures gather
  • Ijaw secession
  • Battles of Boro's ghost
  • Presidential duel
  • The ethnic factor
  • The big upset
  • Moyo makes mischief
  • Colonel inside
  • Belgium's man in Africa
  • Britain's man in Africa
  • Ship ahoy!
  • Storm warning
  • Faure's French friends
  • From the ground up
  • Running the South
  • Seizing the day in the South
  • What is the MDC for?
  • The dam bursts
  • The big push comes to shove
  • Hunger and hullaballoo
  • Back to DC
  • Lost and found
  • Parliament comes alive
  • Race for the presidency
  • Banking bust-up
  • Biwott is back again
  • Merci, Papa
  • Democracy's a luxury
  • Oil bubble
  • Warlord on the loose
  • Double Wamco
  • Papabile
  • Moscow marriages
  • No papers, no case
  • Radio silence
  • Future shock
  • Missing a basic law
  • Long-term agenda
  • A new-style monarchy
  • Who wants to tackle Museveni?
  • Milton stays lost
  • Crime and no punishment
  • Waiting for Kiev
  • Twixt South Africa and France
  • Wrong numbers again
  • What Cheney knew
  • Dis-Harmony
  • The end of a boom
  • Oloibiri, oil capital
  • Credibility on corruption
  • Can the centre hold?
  • Nervy neighbours
  • Presidential race
  • Finding the new Mwalimu
  • Joining the club
  • Who's in charge?
  • Moral choice
  • Cold murder trail
  • A putschist's progress
  • Olympic heights
  • Abdelaziz of Arabia
  • Mea culpa
  • For the greater Good
  • They also ran
  • Matebeleland moves on
  • IMF reprieve
  • Hannibal's campaign
  • Emotional stress
  • Belgium's bullet points
  • Reform on the rack
  • Power to the party
  • Faure falters
  • All about the jobs
  • The Africa Commission: people and money
  • The Blair report - unveiled
  • How can they vote?
  • The next caliph
  • It's my party
  • Waterborne corruption
  • Authoritarian instincts
  • Not a good start
  • Dynastic dictatorship
  • Every single day
  • Who's who on Darfur?
  • East of the border
  • Spies and counter-spies
  • Friends fall out
  • Welcome back to the state
  • Chinese firecrackers
  • High noon
  • Jammeh rejection
  • Who's spooking who?
  • Whodunit?
  • Wearing green
  • Pass the ammunition
  • Operation Kisanja
  • Peace is pricey
  • The new flagbearers
  • Rebellion under the rainbow
  • His own man
  • Chinese walls
  • Impossible vote
  • Southern spookery
  • Heading higher
  • Aid, trade and reform
  • New at the convivial party
  • Bongo for ever
  • Ogbeh walks out
  • Capital concerns
  • West of the border
  • Joy in the South, silence in the North
  • Crabs in a barrel
  • They're off - or not
  • Putsch de Noël
  • Manipulation
  • Cooperation again
  • Reverse roles
  • Decision time
  • More rumblings
  • New brooms
  • Less debt, more growth
  • Brave new century
  • Political map
  • Diplomatic hubbub
  • Time to deliver
  • Too many troops
  • Peace, or else
  • Pan-Africanism meets market economics
  • Correction
  • Don't sign anything
  • A shining example
  • On edge
  • Boom boom, China's coming
  • Diamond diagnosis
  • The truth of the matter
  • Now for the hard work
  • Man with a past
  • Guebuza's day
  • Morgan's method
  • A heartbeat away
  • Bingu ascendant
  • Bye-bye, Moyo
  • Coming to blows
  • Another man with a plan
  • Sam's successor
  • Talk of the towns
  • There's money in reconstruction, if you have friends
  • Election, what election?
  • Under the volcanoes
  • Golden trial
  • Russian roulette
  • Honoured dictator
  • Trial of strength
  • Khama's coming
  • Murder by any name
  • Queuing for court
  • Government versus party
  • Gunning for Number 2
  • No more 'comrade' Gbagbo
  • At war with the peacekeepers
  • Africa map
  • Another Euroland
  • Unmoved movers
  • Busting the busters
  • Building blocks
  • Pipe bombs
  • Blow up
  • Phone sects
  • Military-minded
  • The UN tries again
  • Dead men's shoes
  • Spinning a pipeline
  • No proxy peace
  • Whodunit?
  • Stolen stones
  • No holds barred
  • Who's dropping the debt?
  • Life after debt
  • Au secours!
  • Danse macabre
  • Saudi white knight
  • Ultra-deep dodo
  • Bailing in
  • Battle of Bailundo
  • Diamond deal
  • All his own work
  • Cleaning up oil
  • Losing a peacemaker
  • After Mwalimu
  • Counter-attack
  • Bziz buzzes again
  • Desert king
  • Digging deeper holes
  • Rhodies to the rescue
  • Precious little peace
  • Getting DC's drift
  • Battling for Badme
  • Ceasefire under threat
  • A gambit too far
  • Diamonds for guns
  • Bédié's flashpoint
  • Gunmen at the gate
  • Chiluba and after
  • Broom sweeps Basri
  • Presidential accounts
  • Postponing the new order
  • Hostile homeland
  • Going to the dentist
  • Tandja wins, ok
  • Lousy legacies
  • Tarnished gold
  • Mubarak's men - new and old
  • Pharaoh's frown
  • The blue helmets return
  • A Nujoma dynasty?
  • Faustian deal
  • Green light
  • Loaded magazine
  • A very private war II
  • Lacklustre and listless
  • Militant diplomacy
  • Battle for the palace
  • A government of economics and security
  • Economic trumps
  • Drama in the Durban dock
  • Facts on a fax
  • Specially designated
  • New model army
  • Pig in a poke
  • Tsvangirai half free
  • Front-line investigators
  • Post-war clean up
  • Proof of the PUDDing
  • A model?
  • Show us the money!
  • Smelling an elephant
  • Brussels dawn
  • Muddy
  • Readjusted
  • Busting Billy
  • Off-side
  • Advantage Kigali
  • Obiang's heritage
  • Sorry, wrong number
  • Going for broke
  • Dealing with dissenters
  • Gullible's travels
  • In the IMF fold - just
  • Democracy in action
  • Undiplomatic row
  • Seven more years
  • The timetable slips
  • Millennial crisis
  • That golden moment
  • Day of the locusts
  • Wayne Fredericks
  • Unlikely heirs
  • Collision course
  • Kofi asks for more
  • Now for the contest
  • The team on the Tagus
  • A very old connection
  • Good neighbours, bad neighbours
  • Spinning on the edge
  • The Tesler tapes
  • Swelling the great gas balloon
  • Accra ahead
  • Taya's travails
  • New twist
  • World Banker
  • Darfur's turning point
  • Success unseen
  • Cocoa wars
  • Long haul, slow progress
  • Transition on hold, again
  • Military matters
  • Price of peace
  • On the trail
  • Bingu's can of worms
  • New brooms
  • SWAPO in turmoil
  • Rude health
  • Splodges of wonga
  • Forty days
  • Don't criticise it, nationalise it!
  • Mistake in the Movement
  • Déby's dilemma
  • The cost of border tension
  • Massacre questions
  • On the bribe trail
  • Guns, gangs and oil
  • Parliament in sight
  • Caution, democrats at work
  • Deaths mount, time passes
  • Fighting the foreign front
  • The wrong planes
  • Investigation
  • Talking, at least
  • Chirac's man
  • Clay's feat
  • Caught out
  • Coming cleaner
  • Private estate
  • Gideon rising
  • Delta damages
  • On and on and on
  • The net widens
  • Smiles and shadows
  • 419, and counting
  • Military might
  • Chinese puzzle
  • HIPC Junction
  • No preference
  • No peace without justice
  • The limits of power
  • Newish start
  • Iraq first
  • Genocide watch
  • Tinkering with trouble
  • Too much sopi
  • Shell-shocked
  • At a crossroads
  • Fears of famine
  • Gas timetable
  • Gasmen
  • Anura Perera, an apology
  • Gas leak
  • Chez Ntemba spreads its wings
  • Send for Tintin
  • Fly me, I'm Moroni
  • Liberating the liberator
  • A very private war
  • Sam's man
  • Winners and losers
  • Did they vote for this?
  • The road from Nyala to El Geneina
  • A good deal missing
  • Peace without honour
  • The Kivus jolt Kinshasa, again
  • A long, long wait
  • Parallel universe
  • After Bakili, Bingu
  • Yes, guv
  • No turning back
  • The East needs oil
  • Fast buck, slow famine
  • The LRA fights on
  • People's power
  • Nairobi's nomenklatura
  • Fighting mighty magendo
  • For show
  • Dirty water
  • Diamond defamation
  • The family khaki
  • Closer and closer
  • Season of hate
  • Presidential prosecutions
  • Tragic contradictions
  • A rebel's story
  • Desperate Darfur
  • Maize-meal for votes
  • Plot news
  • Locking up the Minister
  • Sour Mango
  • Future shock
  • Disappearing food
  • Nepotists' nirvana
  • Brazzaville breakdown
  • Bingu the favourite
  • Troubled isles
  • Algerian bullets
  • Mass murder
  • A small success
  • Nujoma steps aside
  • Between the wars
  • End of an affair
  • Rebels all round
  • Registration rumpus
  • Kibaki's crowded diary
  • Rebirth pains
  • Losing Zengeza
  • Gunning for Mnangagwa
  • Of ranch and rupees
  • Election year
  • Two helpings of peace
  • Hear those drums
  • Diamond poker
  • Son of Sam
  • A new front opens
  • A flood of mud
  • The big men look to the future
  • Bad governance
  • Unsuitable friends
  • No cheques
  • Ugly contest
  • The old order please
  • The view from the Seine
  • The right wing explodes
  • Kraaling out of trouble
  • Mwai's moment
  • Work with sanctions
  • Price of silence
  • Whiter than white
  • Kabila reacts
  • Death in Darfur
  • Get with the programme
  • Unfinished business
  • Hasty engagement
  • The Congo factor
  • The new veterans march home
  • Pattni's list
  • True confessions
  • Out of funds
  • Oil, sweat and tears
  • To plot or not
  • Under arrest, again
  • After the phoney war
  • On trial for genocide
  • Starting again
  • Vote for the big bucks
  • Thabo's test
  • Aristide's lavalas
  • Vaulting ambition
  • Fraud and the Fund
  • Ruberwa's rift
  • Le Para moves east
  • A man for election seasons
  • Murder in Gambella
  • Gideon's bible
  • Who fired the missiles?
  • Malabo imbroglio
  • All in the family
  • Under-confident
  • End of empire
  • Still the boss
  • View of the Volta
  • Not Florida
  • Local heroes
  • Diamonds and danger
  • Gbagbo rides the tiger
  • Africa - where's that?
  • Death of a veteran
  • Peace at last
  • Presidential pranks
  • Carlos Cardoso
  • High price of kingship
  • A longer presidency
  • Luanda looks to Norway
  • Pretence of normality
  • Bringing back the British
  • Peering in
  • Tough nut to crack
  • Sanctions no problem
  • Undoing the rigging
  • It's party time
  • Still resisting
  • Conflict of interests
  • Open skies
  • Bonding in Brussels
  • Multi-party, single party
  • Mbeki mark two
  • Nice guy finishes first
  • A tale of two elections
  • Stuck in the sand
  • A nuclear waste
  • My country right and left
  • A bandwagon for change
  • Yes, Professor!
  • Walter's woes
  • Who's for the White House?
  • Fighting for peace
  • Losing friends
  • Blasts from the past
  • Wind in the rigging
  • Hard loans
  • The calabash bubbles
  • Gbagbo's next test
  • In the running
  • Those fatal cars
  • Military minders
  • Morgan versus Mugabe
  • Preferment
  • Bobodan's battles
  • Milosevic effect
  • Conditional offers
  • Going straight - again
  • Family affairs
  • Gadaffi's prime time
  • Oduduwa's children
  • Power and greed
  • High street havens
  • Laying off hands
  • Democratic deficit
  • Racist rage
  • Pride of lions
  • Policemen plod on
  • The new securocrats
  • A military makeover
  • Dropping Kabila
  • Duel in Khartoum
  • No room at the Security Council
  • Naming names
  • Dirty laundry
  • Bad timing
  • Kanu help?
  • Changing floors
  • Union is strength
  • Blame for the bombs
  • Gueï goes it alone
  • When push comes to shove
  • Economic battlefield
  • Social oil
  • Murderous border
  • A bell rings
  • Soldiers of misfortune
  • Playing the offside rule
  • Disproportional
  • Heavy commitments
  • Breakfast at the bank
  • A soldier's story
  • Platonically yours
  • John Vernon
  • Possible president
  • Under Kilimanjaro
  • Copper politics
  • Calling labour's bluff
  • Bemba's boys
  • A losing gamble
  • Transparency test
  • New frontiers
  • Look who's here!
  • Intimidation
  • Copper quarrels
  • Now the economic battle
  • War against peace
  • Tracking Angola's gems
  • Masters of war
  • Unity Gadaffi-style
  • Call the ex-marines
  • Cash yes, reform?
  • Moving goalposts
  • Talking left, acting right
  • The Bouteflika paradox
  • Multi-party Mugabe
  • Cross-border crisis
  • Kabbah in court
  • Death on the river
  • Hall of mirrors II
  • Under fire
  • Clean up for donors
  • The race to succeed
  • Cautious in Malawi
  • Too dry for crops
  • A tangled web
  • The bigger the better
  • From the other side
  • ZANU-PF's Pyrrhic victory
  • Time of reckoning
  • Time to talk
  • After Kisangani
  • Kérékou, no coup
  • The military-metropolitan team
  • The national question
  • He smiles and smiles
  • Hall of Mirrors
  • Godfather to the rebels
  • Glittering prizes II
  • ANC untamed
  • Take your medicine
  • Come in, it's private
  • Wade makes his mark
  • Mixed reviews
  • Kabbah, the survivor
  • Moving the mandate
  • Mission leap
  • In and out
  • Duty free
  • Cleaning up
  • Linking in the Luo
  • Force majeure
  • Glittering prizes from the war
  • Fishy business
  • East of Suez
  • As you were
  • Whitewashing reality
  • The lobbyists' list
  • Influence for sale
  • The battle for Freetown
  • Promises, promises
  • Gems and guns
  • Cheque in the post
  • Who's who in the NRM
  • One way street
  • A military trap
  • The region rumbles
  • Comrade Mugabe's last stand
  • Trouble in oil
  • Jettou set
  • Augean audit
  • Intrigue in Beirut
  • At the end of the Rainbow
  • Proxy wars and slaughter
  • The British connection
  • Hall of infamy
  • Soldiers go, plunderers stay
  • Whose land?
  • Squeezing Le Para
  • Papa Wemba's big band
  • Blowback
  • Babagate or floodgate
  • Anenih's irresistible rise
  • Rough diamonds
  • Peace dividend
  • Self-examination
  • A ten-year test
  • Double war
  • Millennial
  • Going for Glencore
  • Not too smart
  • Horse-trading
  • Scrambling for Africa
  • Nigeria's rag trade
  • Cottoning on to the WTO
  • The terror factor
  • Whose army?
  • Clinging to the cash box
  • Neutering UNITA
  • Joined-up aid
  • Retirement tent
  • KANU at war
  • Uranium trail
  • King and pawns
  • Our friends in the north
  • Leaving the quagmire
  • Corruption club
  • The nightmare scenario
  • Sins of omission
  • Judging Jerry
  • Desert shadows
  • Bombed out
  • Friends wanted
  • Deadly anniversary
  • Foregone conclusion
  • Inquiries, no answers
  • Fading Rainbow
  • And now the world
  • Bourguiba's ghost
  • L'effet Wade
  • Students shot
  • Conquests in Cairo
  • Guns and butter
  • Deferred
  • Post-KK traumas
  • King Oil, again
  • Military manoeuvres
  • Warlords at the gate
  • Togoïmi's Tactics
  • Radio silence
  • Bye bye Billy
  • Silencing the critics
  • The blame game
  • Other infernos
  • Bizimungu bust-up
  • Tables turned
  • Offshore, offside
  • Post-poll rumblings
  • Baker's big idea
  • Name and shame
  • Turning off the taps
  • All change
  • Hope from the north
  • Duet for donors
  • Early warning
  • Good-relief, debt-relief
  • Who's next?
  • Running on empty
  • Quarrelsome lobby
  • Killer floods
  • Offshore turbulence
  • Passion for change
  • Cleaning diamonds
  • Betting on the market
  • In God's name
  • Watching and waiting
  • Secret Pipeline
  • Phone operators
  • Fudge all round
  • Sparkling lobbyists
  • Ten years after, another revolution
  • Boutef rides his luck
  • Shaky movers
  • Hanging on
  • Hawks or doves?
  • Saying no to the yes-men
  • Positively 4th street
  • UN-convincing
  • Russian steal
  • Kaguta yekka!
  • Falling out, falling in
  • Down to work
  • Rape of the Nuba
  • The men in charge
  • Falling out, falling in
  • Too close
  • Rallying
  • Friends of Sani
  • Heading north
  • SWAPO steamroller
  • Unconstitutional
  • Mon général
  • 'Pre-humanitarian' surveillance
  • Not yet endgame
  • Bonding with the Broederbond
  • Water music
  • Saddam to Sharon
  • Volunteers?
  • Scot free
  • Deep drift
  • Peace talk, but is it real?
  • Strategic supplies
  • Impeachment
  • Running on empty
  • Paranoid or what?
  • Over the rainbow
  • Murky depths
  • On Blaise's trail
  • Presidential runners
  • Too much terror
  • Octopus at work
  • Oil slick
  • Murder again
  • Dicing with death
  • Helpless about AIDS
  • Honeymoon over
  • Going private against the grain
  • No shine on gold
  • Donor diplomacy
  • Everything is risky
  • Rising Ravolomanana
  • Offal and waffle
  • Santa's leopards
  • The focus shifts
  • Hard pressed
  • Bitter borders
  • Later rather than sooner
  • Maize power
  • Too close to call
  • No more handouts
  • Sweeping away
  • Armed and dangerous
  • Guns for hire again
  • No new order yet
  • The killing of Cain
  • Picking a fight
  • Brothers at war
  • Gems for the martyrs
  • Mkapa winds it up
  • Moving target
  • Doing the business
  • Pressing Patassé
  • Nujoma – the movie
  • Usama's allies
  • Desert fox
  • It's better abroad
  • Unknown soldiers
  • Don't confront, co-opt
  • Short-pants to no pants
  • Flag-waving, gun-running, all the conveniences
  • Old habits die hard
  • In absentia
  • Walk out
  • Piecemeal
  • Payback time
  • October evolution
  • Washington's new pragmatism
  • People's courts
  • Hagos heads home
  • Stuck again
  • Accident-prone
  • The re-election game
  • Islamism begins at home
  • Who's selling who?
  • The road to ruin
  • Fighting for Farmers
  • The other war
  • Boom boom
  • Poets and presidents
  • Not forgotten
  • Looking for clues
  • Post Sam, more Sam
  • Old guard, new guard
  • Local, global or both
  • Congress gets scratchy
  • Digging a hole
  • President, people, parties
  • Winning Biya mile
  • Stand to ATTention
  • Koma going
  • Dodgy dinars
  • Negating the negatives
  • Crackdown
  • Dialogue in Addis
  • Where Usama fits in
  • Everyone's catastrophe
  • Constitutional Conté
  • The Chile factor
  • Milingogate
  • Clean-up or cover-up
  • Bulyanhulu
  • In denial
  • Of tuna and tourists
  • By a whisker
  • Puppet or prince?
  • Mixed Marriage
  • Moi versus the economy
  • In need
  • No go NGO
  • Patassé's pals
  • Too good
  • Eastward Ho!
  • Home made, world class
  • Political famine
  • Blaise wins again
  • Muddying Machakos
  • Soldiers of tomorrow
  • Don't praise the lord
  • No immunity
  • Henry's parachute
  • Everyone likes parsley
  • I'm Sam, fly me
  • Buthelezi replays history
  • Uhuru now!
  • After the phoney war
  • Who is Sulaf?
  • Calling the shots at Machakos
  • Long wait
  • Birds of a feather
  • Waiting for the call
  • Next, please
  • Reality checks
  • Sustainable soup
  • A sort of peace
  • Murky waters
  • How Sharia spread
  • Shariacracy on trial
  • A la carte
  • Scant aid for AIDS
  • Northern Lights
  • Part of the union
  • Levy at war
  • Last of the dinosaurs
  • Bouteflika digs in
  • Harvesting souls
  • Ben Ali for a fourth
  • Banking blunders
  • Beware false profits
  • Fuelling conflict
  • Hey big spender
  • Après Moi, maybe
  • Unions fight privatisation ideology
  • Sell if you can
  • Hanging in there
  • Possession in nine points
  • Keeping them talking
  • Delusions of peace
  • Wage inflation
  • Carrots for Kinshasa
  • Fame and famine
  • Of rice and rings
  • Seconds out
  • Disarmed but not demobbed
  • Inside the tent
  • The voters' friend
  • Some winners and losers
  • Banker versus banker
  • What's left of the opposition
  • End of an Alliance
  • Pohamba steps up
  • Family at war
  • Going Dutch
  • Gems to oil
  • Replaying the aid game
  • Jail to the chief
  • Roller-coaster rand
  • Kaiser's bill
  • Strong scent
  • Silencing the guns
  • Ancien régime
  • Cobalt crunch
  • Not yet Uhuru!
  • And the arms flow on
  • Who's who in Sassou's Congo
  • By other means
  • Blood from stones
  • Banking on the donors
  • Whose peace bonanza?
  • Climbing to the summit
  • Caught out
  • Steal community
  • Fixing it up
  • Bank accountability
  • Friends and neighbours
  • A war unwon
  • He's back
  • Rightist regime
  • Holding their noses
  • Cabinet making
  • Kabbah's cabal
  • Hungry for change
  • Polling in peace
  • Separate & sovereign
  • Unstable
  • Behind the partition
  • Interregnum
  • Two to tango
  • The fire does not cease
  • Mbeki's front line
  • Will the real Thabo Mbeki stand up?
  • Cobalt cash
  • Recycled general
  • The Carlos card
  • Who's got the money?
  • Wade's wide world
  • UN gumshoes in Taylorland
  • Rebels without a plan
  • Khaki blues, business suits
  • The Generals' election
  • Nervy
  • Transition to where?
  • Zero-rated
  • Post-summit blues
  • Hunting lobby
  • Who's who in the military plots
  • Murder, pillage, scandal
  • Politics dead or alive
  • 2003 starts here
  • Les jeux sont faits
  • Conditionally yours
  • Gadaffi's big tent
  • Crimes against the state
  • Grit that glitters
  • Multi-party
  • Friends abroad, foes at home
  • Anglo accused
  • Map meets compass
  • The last summit
  • UN manoeuvres
  • Asian interests
  • Missing Badme
  • Anti-Kagame alliance
  • An edited peace
  • Murder in Yendi
  • Purging again
  • Who killed Laurent?
  • Sundown
  • Wanaharakati and kuffar
  • Decision time in Dar
  • No mistake
  • Succession rumble
  • Compassion fatigue
  • Gun law
  • The other General
  • More petro-nairas
  • Cart before horse
  • Spot the difference
  • From Russia with debt
  • Black gold flows
  • Banking breakdowns
  • Too many defects
  • Refugee voices
  • Star-struck
  • The military might?
  • Following Festus
  • Kagame under siege
  • Financial squeeze on KANU bosses
  • Drive my tractor
  • Minimal contracts
  • Precarious calm
  • Dark prospect
  • With or without Riek
  • One musketeer
  • Of mud and men
  • The Mobutu factor
  • Plot and panic
  • Fraud storm
  • The Blair mission
  • The military-financial complex
  • The hand of Lucifer
  • Authoritarian urge
  • Mobile bank
  • Got your number
  • Follow me, follow
  • Wade's blue wave
  • Political eclipse
  • Ole Kufuor!
  • Lev Leviev takes on De Beers
  • Who blinks first?
  • Independence vote
  • Brothers Nguema
  • Disbelief
  • Lost hope
  • Queuing for influence
  • In the lobbies
  • After Sam, maybe
  • Unending endgame
  • The old-timers
  • The new foreign legion
  • Recamping out
  • Talking to Jonas
  • Home and away
  • Exit top brass
  • The plots thicken
  • Storm after the storm
  • War economy
  • A hundred days of Kufuor
  • Cash and carry
  • Oiling the daggers
  • The man from uncle
  • Starting from scratch
  • The two-is-enough group
  • The cock crows
  • Talks break down
  • Sniping at the President
  • More of Mugabe
  • AC Political Map
  • Peace from above
  • Fresh start for old faces
  • Not warring but warning
  • Peace deals and petro-wealth
  • Ten years after
  • New Year party
  • Next year in Paris
  • Tension at the top
  • Risky dealings
  • No change there, then
  • Dead men tell tales
  • The language of weapons
  • The cost of Mugabe
  • Kibaki, Keriri and allies
  • One year under the Rainbow
  • Reforms, risks and rumblings
  • We interrupt . . .
  • Missing airline
  • Urban guerrillas
  • Chilling out Chiluba
  • Cleaned out
  • Armed and angry
  • After the war economy
  • Peace or bust
  • Colonel Kizza's story
  • Military muscle, political problems
  • Entente partiale
  • Plots galore
  • Dirty deals
  • Settling Sassou
  • Death knocks twice
  • Caution, lobbies at work
  • Brown bounces back
  • Leave it to Sally
  • Rules of law
  • Ungracious winner
  • City under siege
  • Enemy's enemy
  • Pax Luanda
  • Politics before economics
  • Stalemate
  • Grabbing at growth
  • Chairman Moi
  • Whose best friend?
  • Heading for the door
  • Tote that barge
  • Back in Brazza
  • Pals with Pal
  • Levy's trials
  • Risky money
  • Algeria's growing military machine
  • Cross-border pressures
  • Alternating currents
  • The nomenklatura
  • On the knife-edge
  • Whose masquerade?
  • Meles the winner
  • Rose thou art sick
  • Spooky
  • Third time unlucky
  • Jumping Jammeh
  • Generals, tontons and kidogos
  • Slow, slow
  • A stake in the oil war
  • Opening new fronts in the oil war
  • Against Arusha
  • Free Falcone
  • Acts of God
  • Question of survival
  • The cost of Kabbah
  • Even more intelligent
  • Market failure
  • Catching the boat
  • Party games
  • Bretton Woods at Dunsinane
  • Cat and mouse
  • The other Tanzanite
  • Money for mercs?
  • Branch office
  • Blitzing the banks
  • African energy
  • 'Making politics and war together'
  • Oilfield, battlefield
  • Election arithmetic
  • Good news for some
  • How many UNITAs?
  • Death, not peace
  • Uncharted waters
  • 106 Executions
  • Graça gets ready
  • Crossed lines
  • High stakes at Sun City
  • Rebels versus rebels
  • New rebels, new danger
  • Who's after Ali?
  • Unconstructive engagement
  • Back to gaol
  • Dialogue de sourds
  • Peace budget
  • Revolution revisited
  • Gim-Gema in Ethiopia
  • Winter in Asmara
  • Hope springs eternal
  • Wrong number, again
  • Not so slick
  • Le Petit looks good
  • Austin Amissah
  • Not so nutty
  • World record?
  • Arms for oblivion
  • Go north, Ould Taya!
  • Saved by the cash
  • How high the summit
  • Winners and losers in Angolagate
  • Saying yes, saying no
  • Trading places
  • Family fiefs
  • A right royal putsch
  • Designer diplomacy
  • Down the mine, down the drain
  • Levy limps in
  • The barricades again
  • Airport turf wars
  • Watch on the spooks
  • New parties, new plots
  • Torrents of trouble
  • In a word
  • Stirring
  • L'arbitraire
  • Bio's bio
  • Bear markets
  • Under the volcano
  • Russian roulette
  • The generation game
  • Managing foreign affairs
  • Crossing the Limpopo
  • Murdering sleep
  • Raelity
  • Doing the splits
  • A not-so-fresh start
  • Busy Presidents
  • New Year hopes
  • Conflicting agendas
  • Our American friends
  • Leaders who retire, leaders who don't
  • Do not pass go
  • Surrender!
  • Don't RSVP
  • BEE is for business
  • No melting pot
  • Luanda's money-go-round
  • Holding the cash
  • Marching to Masvingo
  • Not franc
  • Pharaoh speaks
  • Ciao João
  • Brief honeymoon
  • Laurent's legacy
  • The war moves north
  • The pro-consuls decide
  • Congo-Kinshasa: Kabila est mort, vive Kabila!
  • Jobs for Jak
  • Big brother
  • Third term lucky
  • How high the moon?
  • Revolving doors
  • Congo imbroglio
  • Mixed fortunes
  • Industry and Islamism
  • The centre isn't holding
  • Accords and aggravations
  • A defining terror
  • Succession issues
  • From crisis to crisis
  • Free voting, united opposition... Surely some mistake?
  • Mwai and Moi make history
  • A coup that wasn't
  • Polio politics
  • Money, perhaps
  • Al Qaida warning
  • New hopes, new dangers
  • Taylor's shadow
  • Gaius says goodbye
  • Politics get crude
  • The best money can buy
  • No chance, Mr President
  • Foundation stoned
  • Rallying round
  • Cable controversy
  • Coordinates
  • Gatsha bites back
  • Fradique's new front
  • Foul play
  • The Unbwogables
  • On the mend
  • Coming out of the closet
  • Royal echoes
  • Minister in peril
  • Bum steer
  • Playing by the rules
  • Poison and bankruptcy
  • Jacques is back
  • Enter Bozizé
  • Landing in trouble
  • Out for the Conté
  • Hamutenya in the blocks
  • Oil empires
  • The new American way
  • Catching the flak
  • Boom to bust
  • Delta force
  • War spreads
  • Votes and gaols
  • Up for grabs
  • Hard-core Gbagbo
  • Unity's opponents
  • Victory is not enough
  • Soccer war, Congo war
  • The great U-turn
  • Faux EO?
  • Licence to kill
  • Odious debt
  • North-south divide
  • The big issues
  • Bamako blues
  • The quiet pro-American
  • Win the war, lose the peace
  • Deeper and deeper
  • Is Gato going?
  • Reluctant Herero
  • No deal
  • Oiling the palm trees
  • Rebel forces, market forces
  • The oil offensive, continued
  • Saving salvation
  • A victory for the generals
  • Musyoka's message
  • El Jefe reshuffles
  • A long march
  • The battle in the states
  • Killing fields
  • Outgunning the opposition
  • Said and unsaid
  • The blame game
  • Model justice, for some
  • Beg, borrow and steal
  • Succession for sale
  • This land is our land
  • Lomé abstention
  • Conclave expectations
  • Cutting-edge diplomacy
  • Presidential stakes
  • Split parties, stout leaders
  • No end to the affair
  • Roll out the barrel
  • Monitoring minefield
  • Back-door deals
  • Another Addis agreement?
  • Peace in our time
  • Bedding down
  • So, farewell then
  • Media attrition
  • The gift horse's mouth
  • Going Dutch
  • Missing the goals
  • Warriors and marabouts
  • An awkward embrace
  • Spies pop out of the past
  • Le grand retour
  • Breaching the peace
  • Security blanket
  • Atlantic crossing
  • The Ituri militias
  • Nobody's moving
  • How the Ghana talks stalled
  • Weird scenes inside the gold-mine
  • Getting away with it
  • Oppressive and totalitarian
  • Get a move on
  • The Fund's no fun
  • Kidnapped II
  • Kidnapped I
  • Mogae plays the Khama card
  • Leaving the door open
  • The nearly government
  • Diplomacy central
  • Meltdown in Monrovia
  • Democratic doubts
  • Tackling Taylor
  • Wood for the trees
  • Drummed out
  • Buyoya's boys
  • Getting rid of Muluzi
  • Looking down the line
  • Generals on the hill
  • Landslide in the Delta
  • The naira republic wins again
  • Losses to West and Central African cotton producers resulting from US subsidies
  • Walter's woes II
  • Murder in paradise
  • Yala's unlamented end
  • Saharan desserts
  • Main Western and Central African cotton producers (2002-2003)
  • Where next for the WTO?
  • Zamtrop and the politicians
  • Watching Big Brother
  • Model reformer stumbles
  • In come the vigilantes
  • Facing Mount Kenya
  • Murder most foul, again
  • Fighting on
  • Desperados
  • Regression
  • Kenya: Virtue unrewarded
  • Who loses?
  • A can of subsidised worms
  • Slow to go
  • NePAD doubts mount up
  • Sticky US relations
  • Peacekeepers and peers
  • Boundary boobytraps
  • War on England
  • War drift
  • Not welcome
  • Delta force
  • Dr Faustus, I presume
  • Another year, another plot
  • Rabat's regional security web
  • Saharan box of tricks
  • Butter on those guns
  • BAE's role in SA's big arms deal
  • Struggling to succeed
  • Count and discount
  • Voiceless
  • Tout sauf Gbagbo?
  • High dudgeon summit
  • Domestic politics at last
  • Hands across the water
  • More guns, please
  • Horse-trading, arms-trading
  • Who's next?
  • Musical chairs
  • Cotton tales
  • Democracy at stake
  • Un-rapid reaction
  • No cash, no court
  • Five-yearly farce
  • NARCotic
  • Pius and power
  • What's next?
  • Getting to know the Colonel again
  • Spinning the continent
  • A line in the sand
  • Father and son
  • Lions and hyenas
  • Opening the books
  • Money in the pipeline
  • Battle for Bunia
  • Sticking points
  • Leaky and unlucky
  • Where next?
  • Who loses under Guebuza
  • Guebuza blues
  • Sacking the veep
  • Finally, an election
  • It's all in the family
  • Kazini goes back to school
  • Both sides lose
  • Zuma's other hotspot
  • Arta I, Arta II
  • Abandoned children
  • See you in court?
  • Winkling out Taylor
  • Deals in the West, war in the East
  • Ties that bind
  • No French leave
  • Paris plotters
  • Peace or what?
  • Friends new and old
  • Background to Brenthurst
  • Busy bees
  • Mob rule
  • Crises to come
  • Basri's heirs
  • A victory foretold
  • Winning hearts and budgets